Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More than 100,000 guests were served by 80 bartenders who put out the brew so fast that it had to be supplied from freight cars shunted up on a siding. Host was Adolphus A. Busch Jr., whose aged grandmother Lilly, caught in her native Germany when the War broke out, was callously stripped and searched as a spy at Key West when she finally got back to the U. S. Together with her whole family, she was under suspicion throughout the War. Afterward she turned over the admission proceeds of her Pasadena, Calif, gardens to disabled California veterans. Last...
...usual the Crempa grounds were deserted, the house looked vacant, the blinds were down. The posse's commander was a non-Pole, Deputy Sheriff Edward Carolan. Its armament: six .32 and .38 revolvers, one shotgun, two tear-gas guns. Mr. Carolan deployed his men around the house, broke a window with a stick and had his men fire tear-gas shells into the house...
...brought from Williamsville. N. Y.. defend their laurels against their old rivals, George H. Statler's Ohio team of roan and sorrel Belgians, weighing 4,700 Ib. For five years one or the other of these teams has always held the world's record. Once they broke it three times in one day and they have dragged it up to unbelievable heights...
...Manhattan's most publicized preachers. Dr. Holmes has been stumping for terrestrial goodwill for more than a generation, is a moving spirit in such assorted sodalities as the National Association for Advancement of Colored People, All World Gandhi Fellowship War Resisters League. In 1919 he broke with the Unitarians, established his own independent Community Church. While giving Dr. Holmes full marks for nobility of purpose, pragmatic spectators got a strong whiff of the parsonage in If This Be Treason's incorrigible unreality. Show folk credited the play with about as much dramatic savoir-faire as a Sunday School...
...Vagabond is glad to have this opportunity to welcome Springfield. All he knows about them is what his Sunday-school teacher told him. And for that, for everything he wishes them a nice time. It was from Springfield, he recalls, that a psychologist not so long ago broke into print by breaking the ice in the local lake and saving a drowning terrier. Gentlemen, Welcome to Harvard...