Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a moment's pause. At that point on other occasions Senator Robinson regularly suggests the absence of a quorum. Though only four other Senators were on the floor, Leader Robinson broke his rule...
...June 27 after 23 days aloft they broke the official record of 553½ hr. set by Brothers John & Kenneth Hunter at Chicago five years ago, some 25,000 people jammed Meridian Municipal Airport to cheer them on. In carnival spirit, the crowd danced at the airport all night, whooped at the announcement that the field would henceforth be known as Key Airport. Ablaze with civic pride, the Chamber of Commerce promised the Brothers Key $100 for each & every day they stayed aloft after breaking the record, and the Junior Chamber of Commerce presented their children with Shetland ponies...
...June 28 the brothers got caught in a thunderstorm, fought it out for two hours, broke a stabilizer brace wire. Ole Miss droned on. Next day Ole Miss got into a serious jam when a radio short circuit set the instrument board afire. Al shut off the motor, put out the fire in three minutes with a hand extinguisher. Red-eyed and unshaven, aching all over, the brothers were stained with grease and carbon. Al, 28, had lost 20 Ib. Fred, 25, had gained ten. By this time all Mississippi was basking in their achievement, and Governor Conner made them...
Forty years ago in New Orleans, the late, great Sarah Bernhardt, with Theodore Owen as guide, went alligator hunting in nearby swamps where she picked up a 6-in. baby, called him Aleck, presented him to Owen. Owen built an alligator pool in his garden, house-broke Aleck, cherished him ever after. Last week Owen was dead and most of New Orleans had forgotten Sarah Bernhardt, when Aleck, grown ten feet long and weighing 300 pounds, was auctioned...
When the Spanish and Portuguese South American Empires broke up into great modern states in the early 19th Century, two bobtail leftovers were Bolivia and Paraguay. Portuguese Brazil did not bother to annex the lazy, primitive Guarani Indians sweltering in the low plateaus and lagoon-lands between the Paraguay and Parana Rivers. After Paraguay became an independent nation, the Spanish family of Lopez took it over and willfully plunged it into the "heroic" war of 1864-70, reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred...