Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sacco-Vanzetti case, had less to say. Melodrama was the introduction. A bulky something was wheeled in before the jury. The covering was whipped off to reveal a wax dummy of the slaughtered man, staring, pallid. Madness brought an interval. When a juryman, brooding long on hell and damnation, broke down and was carried yelling to a padded cell, Judge Victor Maurice Barnhill declared a mistrial. Mildness seemed the new motive. When the Aderholt trial reopened with 12 sane jurors, the prosecution had lessened the indictments to second-degree, had quashed all charges against nine defendants. Liberals and conservatives again...
...Philip M. Lydig (Spanish war hero); of pernicious anaemia; in Manhattan. In 1921 she attracted widespread comment by announcing her engagement to Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, famed "Radical" cleric. Dr. Grant was forbidden to marry her by Bishop William Thomas Manning, because she was a divorcee. In 1924 she broke the engagement, "not wishing to ruin Dr. Grant's career." When he died within the year, he left her an estate of some $65,000, which, being bankrupt, she sorely needed...
...Lebanon, Ill., one Bertram Smith, college student, chewed 45 sticks of gum, broke the world's chewing gum record, got diabetes from excess of sugar...
...Poetry was once married to music, and she broke off. Then she was, we thought, securely wedded to verse, but she has got away at last. Shall she be married again, as some believe, this time to the cast-off partner of religion, philosophy...
Punter Bruder's right leg got Northwestern close enough to score on Wisconsin; when he broke his left leg the line managed to stand on their own. Northwestern 7, Wisconsin...