Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mannequin Paula Gellibrand. H. R. H. Marina, Duchess of Kent, was described by News-Review as having "drifted from the smart set and left her husband to go the smart socialite rounds for them both . . . with zest." In London the Beaverbrook Daily Ex press (circulation 2,040,000) broke the Kent & Mrs. Allen story in Britain's daily press, sharply editorialized: "One way to keep clear of such news is not to do the things that make such news." Not so the august London Times (circulation 192,000) which put its immense prestige among ruling Britons behind an editorial...
Other ways that he has found of not doing what is expected of a politician: he never joined any church, never attended a Presidential reception, and having established that as a sort of personal usage, broke it by attending one of Franklin Roosevelt's parties...
Great Guy (Grand National) is James Cagney's first picture for the up & coming young production company whose No. 1 box-office attraction he became after he broke with Warner Bros, last year. As such, it goes a long way to disprove the Hollywood theory that, given a free hand in selecting stories and casts, an actor's vanity is sure to lead him astray. Great Guy is vintage Cagney, exhibiting him at all the shoulder-punching and sotto voce wisecracking on which was founded his reputation as the cinema's No. i mick...
...awarded her a medal in the form of a miniature lyre. Liar Barn-house's story: To relieve its hunger, a gargantuan Michigan mosquito buzzed into a barnyard, spied a tough old mule named Maud. Halfway down the mosquito's gullet, Maud let go a fierce kick, broke the insect's neck, saved the town...
...shrewdness Catherine tried, by one opportunistic scheme after another, to stave off the collapse of her royal house. She tried to balance the religious diet by enforcing toleration of the Huguenots, she tried to raise money by appealing to the States-General. When these expedients failed and civil war broke out between the Catholics and the Protestants, she was nothing daunted, crossed each bridge when she came to it, and just in time. She was grimly pleased when the first civil war ended in a stalemate, pleased that she could say, "I told you so." Altogether she and France...