Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Candidate Snatch's story at his trial, after being indicted under the Lindbergh Law, he seized Candidate Kelly, bundled him into a darkened automobile and drove toward the State line but did not cross it. In the preliminary scuffle Jeremiah Kelly tripped & fell trying to get away, broke a leg. Oscar Snatch was convicted on the ground that he had kidnapped his rival for "ransom or reward or otherwise." Since the victim was missing seven days, the law presumed he had been transported in interstate commerce. The jury chose to believe a State line had been crossed, recommended...
Saint Lydwina of Holland, when a sickly virgin of 15, was persuaded in the winter of 1395 to rise from her sickbed and go skating upon the ice. No sooner had she ventured out on her runners than a rude young woman crashed into her, knocked her flat and broke her rib. "With unimaginable wailing of virgins," St. Lydwina was carried back to bed where she remained for the next 38 years in constant agony, relieved only by angelic visions...
Immediately given first aid followed by a physician's treatment in the accident which resulted after a ski broke in a fast telemark, Conant was rushed to the home of his hosts, Mr. and Mrs. John M. Martin of Plainfield, Vermont, who were with him on the scene of the catastrophe, and thence by train to Boston. Current belief is that he will be confined to his home on Quincy Street for several days...
...annexing their tenth straight victory, the Freshmen also broke two Freshman pool records. Eric Cutler swam the 200-yard free stroke in 2:05, one second under Bill Kendall's record. Bill Rines swam the 100-yard breast stroke in 1:12, cutting 1.2 seconds off Nat Lemke's previous record...
...convocation accomplished nothing that it set out to do. For the King, scenting an attempt to undermine his god-given authority in a proposal that a synod be substituted for bishops, broke up the meeting in a huff, and threatened non-conformers to "harry them out of the land, or worse." Yet that Hampton Court Conference goes down in history as a high water mark for the English language, for before the King had sent the delegates packing, a plan had been drawn up for a new translation of the Bible...