Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Herbert Schussler Billerbeck (Herb Williams), 52, plaintive oldtime comedian; of pneumonia; in Freeport, N. Y. For 25 years in his standard act he sported sickly yellow button-shoes on the wrong feet, yanked ham sandwiches, beer, a cat from his piano, broke baseball bats over the heads of heckling bandsmen...
...believed in the possibility of victory until 1918, by von Tirpitz, who spread exaggerated reports of the effectiveness of submarine warfare, Bernstorff was compelled to improvise in delaying U. S. entry into the War. With the sinking of the Lusitania, his mission lost ground steadily. After the U. S. broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, he became Ambassador to Turkey, returned home when the German armies collapsed, later represented Germany at the League of Nations, retired in 1931 after 50 years of diplomatic service. Opposed to the present German Government, he considers anti-Semitism a blot on the national honor...
...time the news broke the experiment was heralded as a great forward step. The Yale News was "overwhelmed with admiration" and offered its heartiest congratulations...
...attack was more varied on the second march, with forward passes and spectacular end runs interspersed. Bob Stuart, Jayvee star of last year broke loose twice for runs of 15 yards and a pass Stuart to Staples was good for 15 more. After a first on the 15 yard line, it only required three rushes to cross the last white line. Stuart did the carrying...
...months ago a pretty, 25-year-old Roman Catholic nun named Manuela Mary Adamic, serving in a hospital at Dedinje, Yugoslavia, broke her religious vows, ran away, married a patient she had nursed through a long illness. In Manhattan her nervous, energetic, expatriate brother, Louis Adamic, author of two books on the sturdy Adamic family, observed, "She asks me, naively, to forgive her for the step. . . . She is one of the finest and most beautiful girls that ever lived. ... A man who could make her escape after five years must have strength.'' Thus U. S. newsreaders learned...