Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kirkwood, irrepressible Laborite, then shouted: "This isn't a boy's job; it's a man's job!" After the momentary merriment had died down, he suggested a motion that Sir Philip, who was still standing, be not heard. The speaker dissented and disorder again broke out. The speaker then ordered an adjournment of an hour and the mace was removed, signifying that the session was ended...
...Though Joffe came of a bourgeois family, he broke body and soul with the old ideals and devoted himself wholly to the cause of the proletariat. At the end of an overburdened physical suffering, he yielded to a temporary depression, but I ask you, comrades, to imitate him not in his death, but in his life, which was dedicated to the purest principles of Marx and Lenin, under whose flag he marched, as we march, to the bitter...
Yale clinched as closely as is possible in the debatable destinies of football the eastern championship. Halfbacks Garvey and Hammersley, substitutes for the great Bruce Caldwell, retired, broke out with 53 and 42 yard runs respectively, harrowed Harvard, 14-0. For the first time in 20 years Yale had rushed the ball for a touchdown over Harvard's goal line at Cambridge...
Pianist Ethel Leginska has often disappointed her audiences by failure to appear. Ethel Leginska, as conductor, has always been at the appointed dais at the appointed time. Last week Conductor Leginska broke her record, failed her public. The San Carlo Grand Opera Company had announced that she would conduct the last Saturday matinee of its Manhattan engagement. But soon they bickered. Conductor Leginska wished to lead not one but four performances. The San Carlo rebelled-and at the scheduled Butterfly the audience watched the serviceable back of Carlo Peroni instead of the svelt velvet jacket and flyaway head of Leginska...
Leaving Philadelphia to keep a promise, he darted toward Long Island where he had pledged his presence at a charity air circus. As he slid neatly to earth, the frantic crowd broke police lines, swooped toward his plane. With the mob spirit hurling those in front straight to death in the still whirling propeller blades, Col. Lindbergh threw wide the throttle; wheeled the roaring plane just in time; flew away a lifesaver; lighted on an adjoining field...