Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When tourists, natives, other unofficial persons near Rapid City chance to meet President Coolidge,. he returns their greeting with a polite bow, does not usually stop and chat with them. He broke his rule, however, for the sake of a stranger encountered on the steps of the Rapid City High School, temporary White House office. The stranger wore a hat wider even than the President's ten-gallon fishing headgear. In his silk shirt and flowing neckerchief clashed vivid colors. He wore high-heeled, embossed riding boots bearing the letters "put" in white just below each knee. Not even...
Lieut. Maitland, 34, the pilot, is a towering, blond Milwaukee product. He learned to fly at Army training camps during the War. In 1923, he broke the existing world's record for speed by piloting a Curtiss plane at 244.97 miles per hour. He has a daughter, aged...
...Uproar broke forth in John Roach Straton's Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, last week; loud cries were raised for the police. In one corner of the church stood members of the Monday night Bible class, praying, faced by five deacons and their aids...
During this period the hotel roof was peopled with wide-eyed, neck-cramped gazers at 25c per head. Others, equally curious but less solvent, jammed streets, stopped traffic, broke down fences, trampled lawns. Concessionaires opened hotdog, coffee, soft drink and peanut dispensaries...
...strawberries were eaten by Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France. As everyone knows some strawberries have a pollen which can produce on certain pollen-sensitive persons an irritating rash. Soon such a rash broke out upon M. Briand. Impetuous, he scratched. The rash spread, attacked the patient's eyelids, caused them to swell, to close one eye, nearly to close the other...