Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metropolitan homes were emptied of their children. On the whole, when mothers accompanied children to live with strange families in the countryside, the arrangement was carried out with good-natured tolerance by both families. Hut not always. In the excitement and instability of change, the visiting children broke things, fought with their young hosts, ran wild. In most homes the kitchen was the focus of friction, mothers clashing over meals and washing privileges. One distraught visitor took a knife to her hostess. Even when things ran smoothly, women longed to get back to their homes and husbands, if they were...
...uppercut after uppercut, the Japanese went ahead fast-along the corridor into Hunan from Kiangsi, to within 20 miles of Changsha. At week's end Chinese Government officials said that the city, being unimportant strategically, would soon be abandoned. At one time, said Japanese reports, the Chinese front broke and fled so hysterically that they ran bang into their own advancing reinforcements, milling like frightened lambs. Calmly the Japanese strafed and bombed the whole bloody tangle. Fortnight's casualties, according to Japanese estimates (salt to taste...
...When war broke out in Europe many hopeful crew coaches in the country found themselves holding the proverbial bag. Many of them had built up combinations last season on the basis of Olympic trials to be held this year, and new unless Mars starts calling back his dogs, there aren't going to be any Olympics...
Hanfstaengl said that his father was doing historical research in Scotland when the war broke out. Hanfstaengl senior had hoped to come to America in a few months, but he was interned along with all other German citizens living in Great Britain, according...
...middle of the Atlantic when war broke out was the pride of the Polish merchant fleet, the 16,000-ton Batory, Captain Eustazy Borkowski. Captain Borkowski doused his lights, watched for submarines, brought his liner safely into New York harbor with 352 U. S. citizens aboard...