Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last fall Cox broke Tibbetts' cross country record, and is considered the strongest entry in the two mile race. However Captain Haggerty won two first places in last week's meet and will start in a confident mood...
When this scene had played to its end last week, pandemonium broke loose. Opposition Deputies cursed one another for not voting down the bill. Beards bristled, tongues wagged. How ever had it all happened, asked the Deputies, amazed at themselves? The explanation seemed to be that Josef Pilsudski knows his Poland. From the new budget he will derive alarmingly great sums to spend upon his special toy, the army...
...etiquette was hilariously, enjoyably violated. Twenty-one ladies foregathered, chose up sides. Each lady was then allotted one club, shape and style determined by drawing slips of paper from a hat. The teams crowded around the first tee as their rival captains prepared to drive. Suddenly a premeditated bedlam broke loose. Ladies hooted, screamed, blew tin whistles, danced, threw clubs in air, did their utmost to superinduce inaccuracy among the opposition. Nothing save outright mayhem was barred. The match (two-ball) continued, team members shooting in rotation, regardless of allotted implements. The bedlam continued with increasing fury; no lady...
...Officer Gohane broke his club in two pieces. Officer Prior drew his pistol when the mob cried, "Get the damn cop!" Clubbing began soon after the students tried to tip over a patrol wagon. Besides ice and eggs, bottles, both pint and quart sizes, were hurled. Some of the students were suspected of having drunk intoxicants from some of the bottles...
...Glass, you broke your word to me," snarled Senator Wheeler, 45, to a man 24 years his senior...