Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty-eight more men reported to the Hygiene Building yesterday with symptoms of digestive disturbances similar to those that broke out in Kirkland House Wednesday night. Simultaneously a questionnaire was being circulated by Aldrich Durant '02, Business Manager of the University, to the men who had reported Thursday, but no definite results were obtained...
...other members of the cast are uproarious as the Welsh villagers, eager to learn about the miracle. The proof is final when Mrs. Resurrection Jones. who broke up her own funeral by tapping at her con lid, feels the leg and learns to her own disappointment that it's not one of those china things...
Somehow this does not seem very substantial when put beside the ferocity of Mr. Sweetser's "September," in which a Junior, unable to return to college for his Senior year because as he succinctly puts it, "The old man's broke," goes slightly berserk at a debutante party where champagne flows in buckets and orates impolitely to his hostess: "You sit here and smile and talk about mistakes and starving men and studying art at Columbia and what does it all amount to?" Mr. Bach finds, apparently, that it amounts to the inevitable disintegration of capitalistic society, and ironically points...
...When he broke the back of the strike, Jack Neylan all but crippled NIRA's Section 7a in the West. But he sees no inconsistency between that and his oldtime sponsorship of California's Workmen's Compensation Act. To him, in the days of Hiram Johnson, good government meant Progressivism and social reform. But the definition of Progressivism did not include economic reform, and Neylan's Liberalism crystallized then & there. In 1919 he defended Charlotte Anita Whitney, at his own expense, against a charge of criminal syndicalism; but Radicals were not yet important...
...twelve hours the ocean was not sighted once beneath the moonlight-flooded clouds. At dawn the Clipper broke through the grey mists overhanging Oahu Island, sped onward in the bright sunlight of a Hawaiian morning, to make a 150-mi. survey of landing areas. Then, within one minute of its schedule, it landed smoothly in Pearl Harbor, having clipped seven hours from the previous record made by six Navy planes in mass flight in January 1934. Nearly eight years before, two Army flyers (Maitland & Hegenberger) had made the first crossing in a landplane in 25 hr. 50 min. The Clipper...