Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spit by the Cheyennes. Her disclosure under pressure of the trail taken by Cody's detail causes Cody fall into an Indian ambush, Wild Bill to renounce his love Preview audiences wrote the studio protesting as unlikely the scene in which Cody and a handful of soldiers broke by volley firing the charge of a far superior force ot mounted Indians. Studio defense 48 troopers saved themselves from 800 Cheyennes by this means at Beecher's Island Colo., on Sept...
...Jefferson City, Mo., after tunneling 140 ft. under the penitentiary walls for 64 days while two fellow convicts smuggled food and water to him, Prisoner Fred Turner, 22, broke through the wall into the arms of a guard who had been waiting there for him a fortnight...
...fleeing from hounds of the Genesee Valley Hunt near Geneseo, N. Y. last week darted across the thin ice of the Genesee River to safety. Whereas Eliza merely left the bloodhounds baying on the brim, Geneseo's fox lured its pursuers out on the ice, which broke under them, drowning ten of the Hunt's hounds, including Wonder and Bouncer, the two best...
...China, nothing is ever exactly what it seems except an assassination, and the kidnapping of the greatest man in Eastern Asia, unless it should be followed by his assassination, lacked any quality of finality. It was considered by nearly all Chinese, when the staggering news broke, as open to the highly probable suspicion that the Premier of China had had himself kidnapped from the noblest of motives...
Into a Monticello, N. Y., police station walked honest Andrew Bitting, dusty and broke after hitchhiking 1,500 miles from Beatrice, Neb., to confess that he had fled Monticello this summer after bumping his old car harmlessly into a bus. Andrew Bitting could not pay his $10 fine, was jailed for five days...