Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Aug. 24, you state that Harpo Marx broke a 13-year public silence. I think this is a mistake. It is my impression that he addressed the audience in the case of a slight theatre fire in Detroit some years...
When Pantomimist Arthur ("Harpo") Marx broke a 13-year public silence in San Francisco recently (TIME, Aug. 24), it could not have been over 15 months at the most. Because I heard him speak from the stage of the Paramount Theater in Portland in May, 1935. The Marx Bros, had an act, "A Night at the Opera." "Harpo" surprised us all by making a curtain speech...
...Bakunin battalion made up entirely of dockworkers from Barcelona, broke into Huesca at nine in the morning, but was checked for four hours by 26 machine-guns installed on a church roof and belfry, which vomited livid death into the front ranks of the Popular Frontists as they entered the main square. Shortly after noon two Anarchists, Amadeo Salvan and Fernández Ubarri, loaded themselves with sacks of dynamite weighing 40 lbs. each, and made a dash for the church, each with a split fuse held in one hand and a lighted cigaret in the other. Fernandez Ubarri...
...Story broke when Daughter Mary Belle eloped from her home in suburban Chicago Heights to La Porte, Ind. with a 6-ft. 4 in., 21-year-old, 200-lb. onetime high-school athlete named J. Edward Wright. When this news was announced by Mrs. Spencer, the Hearstian Evening American gave it an eight-column, front-page streamer headline. Col. William Franklin Knox's Daily News front-paged the story with a two-column picture of the bride. The tabloid Times devoted its entire front page to Mary Belle, followed up inside with strips of pictures, additional copy...
...swift decisions by 1787, when he was given command of the Bounty for her ill-fated voyage transporting breadfruit trees from the South Seas to the West Indies. Although Dr. Mackaness roundly insists that Bligh was considerate of his men. quotes heretofore unpublished material to prove it, trouble soon broke out among officers and crew. Bligh's only remedy was a traditional dozen lashes for each offender. Little of the drama of the Bounty's seizure makes its way through Dr. Mackaness' professorial prose. But the great story of Mate Fletcher Christian's attack...