Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hoping you go broke...
Computing only Quetta's calamity, more than 20,000 were buried deep in the ruins, many alive. But Death had not finished looking for them. First came the sniffing jackals and pariah dogs. Then fire broke out, burning some. Finally water poured out of the cracked earth, drowning others. From the fast-rotting bodies of the dead, cholera germs fanned out across Quetta. Then the earth began to rock once more, settling the ruins deeper, and a landslide rolled down the nearby Mountain of Death. In this fantastic register of disaster, a Pathan raid failed to materialize at once...
...attention, a stolid routine politician. Since 1927 he has held the safe but physically exhausting job of President of the Chamber, a job for which he is ideally suited because of his size, his strength, his enormous Marseille voice, generally admitted to be the loudest in Paris. President Bouisson broke the handle of so many brass dinner bells, bonging for order, that the present bell is firmly screwed to the desk, rung by a lever at the top. Like a head waiter, President Bouisson has spent his working hours in full dress. When the bonging of his bell...
...Several of them," said newshawks to one another, "are broke. They would like nothing better than a chance to bring a libel suit against someone...
...broke with his mistress, took his wife and family abroad on a slow and unfashionable boat, settled them in the French countryside, in a house that had sentimental associations for him. But his wife, poor wretch, didn't like it; his sons didn't like their English school. She took them home and got a divorce. Meantime Tom's mistress was going haywire and ruining a good chance in Hollywood because he had cast her off. Tom, feeling pretty much put upon by these events, got all broody and drunk. Luckily for Tom's peace...