Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Spanish revolution broke out in July, not a few dealers in death who had sharp lawyers to tell them their rights, journeyed to Washington to ask the State Department's Office of Arms & Munitions Control for licenses to peddle their wares in Burgos or Madrid. In each case, gimlet-eyed Chief Joseph Coy Green, who used to curdle the blood of lazy Princeton freshmen with his drill sergeant ways, would either wheedle or scare the applicant into dropping his request...
...when conventionality was the rule and never the exception. To appreciate the greatness of Charlotte Bronie's achievement, it is necessary to realize what audacity she displayed in the face of the stern early Victorian period. She shocked her contemporaries by revealing a heroine consumed with passion and broke the traditional theory that woman could only be the loved and not the lover. Though the situation used in the novel had been used many times before, the theme was radical. The former shows a young woman entering life under social disadvantages, which she overcomes in the end by returning...
...into her neck and she screamed. Furiously M. Mathis, who is 52 and does setting up exercises every morning, made a dive at the robbers. All three fell into the street and rolled on the wet pavement slugging one another. Mme Mathis began to scream. One of the robbers broke loose and again tried to snatch her jewels. She kicked him repeatedly in the face. For several minutes the battle on the pavement continued, M. Mathis getting in some good licks, while Mme Mathis screamed louder and shriller. Foiled, the robbers suddenly fled...
...discover any definition of what constitutes "aggression." Abortive also were attempts to solve the Chaco boundary dispute between Bolivia & Paraguay. All Christmas Day and right up to the time Secretary of State Hull's steamer sailed for New York, the would-be peacemakers were still haggling. They broke off to bid him goodby...
...mixture up to his sitter's face before he put it on canvas. When he painted the three little daughters of George III playing in a garden, he was so slow and demanded so many sittings that the Princesses, their nursemaids, spaniels and a bright green parrot all broke into open revolt. Last week The Three Princesses was off its accustomed hook in Buckingham Palace and on the walls of the Manhattan Museum...