Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeking brother to California. Statuesque and golden-haired, sensationally beauteous, hot-tempered and flirtatious, she found lusty young San Francisco and its men exactly to her taste. She cut loose from her brother, lived around in various hotels, speculated with an inheritance, made money for a while, ended up broke in 1880. Being also unhappy in love, she tried to kill herself by drinking poison. When she met rich U. S. Senator William Sharon, "King of the Comstock Lode," she was glad she had failed. He owned two of San Francisco's hotels, the Grand and the Palace...
...wretch, so Terry stepped down from the bench to fight a duel. Jittery Broderick put his bullet in the ground; Terry put his through Broderick's breast. A jury acquitted him of murder, but he was still struggling to rebuild his Stockton law practice when the Civil War broke out. Wounded at Chickamauga, Terry was a Confederate brigadier before the war ended. Afterward he tried sheep and cotton in Mexico, then went back to Stockton for a third try at the Law. As a foe of the moneyed interests, he helped rewrite California's constitution, helped beat George...
...elsewhere first. Since Dr. Sun was an unpractical visionary, his death in 1925 greatly advantaged the Kuomintang, enabled such practical leaders as China's present Dictator to turn the memory of Sun into a high-powered political cult, resembling the Communist cult of Lenin. In 1927 practical Chiang broke sharply with Moscow. Last week what he seemed to be doing behind his façade of New Life Movement broadcasting was to sound out the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee thoroughly as to whether or not in 1937 Nanking should end its ten-year tiff with the Soviets and team...
...Field; Grace McMillan Jarvis, granddaughter of Michigan's late Senator James McMillan; Mrs. Beatrice Rogers Benjamin Pratt, granddaughter of the late Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers; and Evelyn Harris Spaulding of Haverhill, Mass. He squandered $4,000,000 of his wives' money on parties and fun, died broke and unattended by any of them or by his four children...
...Ward broke her connection with the school six years ago but it still thrives with a faculty of ten, enrollment of 125. Graduates have already gone as far as Japan and Australia to teach the proper way to sing plain song. Mother Georgia Stevens, the school's director, is also a convert. She is widely known for her music textbooks for children, hopes some day to make the boys in her school sing as well as the girls...