Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fire When Ready. A few days later, after midnight on May 1, seven big battleships made white scratches on the still dark surface of Manila Bay in the Philippines. A few rockets and cannon broke cover from the high sides of the bay, but in the morning all seven battleships-the Olympia, the Baltimore, the Raleigh, the Petrel, the Concord, the Boston, the McCulloch were lined up in the harbor opposite seven Spanish boats bravely named after kings and queens and merry islands; Reina Cristina, Don Antonio de Ulloa, Don Juan de Austria, Isla de Cuba, Isla de Luzon, Cano...
...hopelessly with their concentrated brilliance to make up for a lost moon. A few lazy clouds squatted like Stygian hills on an undefinable horizon, exaggerating the awful nigrescence of a dead night. Not a breath of wind stirred the air, and underneath the green sea lapped wickedly as it broke into little crests of foam. Suddenly the atmosphere vibrated to the staccato dots and dashes of radio-Admiral Kwanji Kato was ordering a night destroyer attack in the Japanese naval maneuvers in the Sea of Japan, 20 miles northeast of Mihoseki. The fleet broke up into attacking and defending parties...
Tenth Avenue. Before the World War broke them up, the Hudson Dusters were a well-knit gang of gunmen and thieves who infested the west front of Manhattan, near Tenth Avenue. Such devilry was constantly sizzling and boiling up here, that the neighborhood became known as "Hell's Kitchen." In this lurid milieu, Playwrights John McGowan and Lloyd Griscom elected to set their play, although, as subsequently developed, they might as logically have fixed upon the Bronx...
...green in the teeth of the tumult. Larry Nabholtz, U. S. professional, "picked up" after a morning round of 91. Wild Bill Melhorn, only other U. S. entrant, took an excellent 82 on the final round but his aggregate was 324, out of the running. Only three players broke 80 on the final round. George Duncan, hoping to keep dry, stuffed his plus fours with brown paper, came to the first tee 14 strokes behind the leader, put down his head and played golf through the screaming storm. Displaying the most courageous game of his career, he shot...
...Reinhardt, three times Western champion, became the favorite. But Bernice Wall, Oshkosh, Wis., suppressed Mrs. Reinhardt in the semifinal. In the other half, Mrs, Pressler squeezed out an early match with an eagle to beat a birdie and win, one up. Soon she trounced Virginia Van Wie, ranking player; broke par by a stroke to trounce Mrs. David C. Gaut in the semifinal...