Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, Priest Coughlin's rally got two prominent mentions. In the Senate, North Carolina's Josiah W. Bailey, broke off in the midst of a speech to exclaim: "When a minister of the Gospel or a minister of a church comes down into the political arena and goes out with his radio incendiarism to stir up the fountains of hate in a distressed land amongst a suffering people, I take it nothing amiss and I make no apologies, but I will snatch the halo from his brow and throw it into the nearest spittoon, and then throw...
...broke, jobless, totally blind. Three weeks ago a doctor offered to patch up his right eye. Last week Sam Langford blinked, saw his first light in five years, blubbered, laughed, pounded his doctor's shoulders...
...broke. I've three supersalesmen who say they...
...they saw the field take the jumps without mishap until Mullah went down at the eighth fence. They saw a tragedy when Trouble Maker, record-holder for the course, one of the best steeplechasers in the U. S. for the last five years, stumbled at the 17th fence and broke his neck. Stuart S. Janney Jr. on Mrs. W. Austin Wadsworth's big, chestnut 12-year-old, Hotspur II, was leading when Trouble Maker went down. Captain Kettle, ridden by Charles R. White, trying for his third Maryland Hunt Cup victory in a row, came up fast...
...California at Los Angeles had defended its mile-relay championship and famed Glenn Cunningham had won a special three-quarter mile race against Glen Dawson of Tulsa. At Santa Barbara, competing in the invitation Track & Field Championships, Pole-Vaulter Bill Graber, onetime star at the University of Southern California, broke his own world's record (14 ft. 4⅛ in.) with a vault...