Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Southport's Taylor. For a socialite young woman to take up sculpture as a diversion has been traditional since Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney first started modeling. For a socialite young woman to become a good sculptor is definitely news. Such news broke last week when Mrs. Wynne Byard Taylor gave her first one-man show at the Georgette Passedoit Gallery. Critics who had never heard of her before were charmed by a number of figures in mahogany, walnut, bronze, pottery, modeled with sure fingers and considerable masculine purpose. In particular they inspected approvingly a leering bronze faun with the shoulders...
...Dealers he is the "most dangerous" enemy in the land. (After the 1932 election he quickly turned on the Brain Trust denouncing its members as an "intellectual awkward squad.") To left-wing Labor he is the "most dangerous" of Conservatives. (He, more than any other one man broke the general strike in San Francisco last summer.) To followers of Senator Hiram Johnson he is the "most effective" Progressive. Most loyal of friends, he is the bitterest, most remorseless of enemies. Thirty years ago he burst upon San Francisco as "Windy Jack," a noisy brilliant, picturesque young hoodlum reporter with...
...playwright had felt qualified to dramatize the excitement and color surrounding the operations of a commercial airline. That job has fallen to Lieut. Commander Frank Wead, U. S. N. retired, leader of the Navy's 1923 Schneider Cup squadron, who turned to fiction and the cinema after he broke his neck by tumbling down a stairway at his San Diego home nine years...
...Kettering, an inveterate tinker, took that first radiotherm to the Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton, where Dr. Simpson could experiment with it. It cured cases of syphilis (thus making Professor von Jauregg's troublesome malaria treatment obsolete), gonorrhea, rheumatism, colds and other ailments. But when the feverish patient broke into a sweat, the high frequency current tended to arc, thus burning his wet flesh. Mr. Kettering overcame that difficulty by fanning the patient dry with a blast of hot air from a new air conditioner which he was developing...
...Crane, Mo., a thief broke into the jail, robbed a prisoner of $17, went out leaving the jail door open. Out into the street the prisoner ran, shouting for a policeman...