Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American educators in China have spread the doctrine of revolution by giving prominence to American history textbooks. From these many Chinese have gotten the idea that a new era dawned on the world when the American colonies broke away from England. Believing that American greatness began with revolution, the Chinese have followed suit with revolutionary movements of their own. . . . Someone ought to protest against such dissemination in the Orient of the poisonous idea that revolution is a necessary antecedent to prosperity...
...opening of the second stanza, Chase broke through the opposing defense, but both his scoring bid and the rebound shot were stopped by Silverberg. Gibson was sent to the penalty box for crosschecking, and the Crimson launched a fierce assault on the weakened Terrier line. A lightning bit of passwork, Clark to Hamlen to Clark nearly netted a counter for Harvard, but Gregory, breaking up another passing game between Scott and Durant, carried the puck the entire length of the rink, but his hard shot caromed off Morrill's skate. Late in the period the Crimson skaters consistently pierced...
...pages. There is the demeure girl of many lovers. There is the quiet old gentleman whose wife proved to be a dope flend. There is the tender-hearted but masterful young lady whose happiness, which consisted in reforming others, was inevitably followed by tragedy when some untoward incident broke her spell and the convert, be it lover or friend or fellow employee, backslid. It is in the retailing of these experiences that Mrs. Woodward can lay a claim to the attention of people generally. Her book is written with a certain ardor which seems to go always with some carelessness...
...pelt in his barn. In the night Edward Grimm made off with the pelt. A skunk caught on his land, he remarked when he met his cousin next day, was his skunk. Words followed. In the lonely barnyard, Grimm fought Grimm. Ernest, with a slap of his hand, broke the nose, already inflamed, of Edward. Edward brought suit for $5,000 for assault and battery. "I've skinned one skunk," he said, "and now I'll skin another." Last week a jury gave Edward...
...Tammen. Bonfils had brains and intensity. H. H. Tammen had brains and charm. It was his creed that, if a man was going to be a faker, he must be a magnificent one. He kept his desk drawer full of paper money in small denominations. Any panhandler, honest "broke" or sleasy rumdum who got in? to see him?and any- one could?was sure of a handout. "Take it," Tammen would chuckle. "It's good money, all right. I made it." And no one is sure yet how H. H. Tammen, facile vender of scenic art views at the World...