Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back-breaking pulley lines. She had removed the first clothespin, when she lost her balance and hurtled out the window. She fell two stories to the concrete below into a space about as big as a closet. She struck the drainpipe to my aunt's flat and this broke her fall...
Step by step events broke down the unity of the Majority. In the spring, if the President had been willing to accept two instead of six new Justices for the Supreme Court, the greater part of his Majority would have rallied round him. Instead, their overtures rejected, the moderates became irreconcilables. When finally the President yielded, gave Leader Robinson a free hand to work out any compromise possible, the chance of doing so had grown slender. When Congress convened, Leader Robinson predicted that it would have successfully adjourned by June...
...Orleans, Aug. 9-(AP)-Cotton broke more than $2 a bale here today on selling induced by the Government estimate of 15,593,000 bales for the 1937 crop...
...defeat at Guadarrama in March (TIME, April 5), their poor showing at Bilbao, had been ordered to Toledo to remain in reserve for the eternally discussed final attack on Madrid. To make way for them, Spanish regulars were ordered to vacate the most comfortable barracks in the city. Firing broke out, the Falangist, Spanish Fascists, coming to the assistance of the Italians, and the Moors, always a little uncertain whom they were fighting and for what, joined in the fight in Toledo's ancient bull ring...
...musician was higher in the social scale than an actor. Paul was to be a violinist. He took his lessons dutifully but one day went to his father with his violin and told him he wanted to stay on the stage. The old man sadly took the violin, broke it across his knee. In later years the Weisenfreunds were partially recompensed by having their other two sons become musicians. Joseph is now a musical arranger at Warner Brothers' studios. Al is also in Hollywood, looking for a job as a violinist...