Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assembly to revise the Constitution, from which he emerged as Premier. After reorganizing the Army and Navy, he sized up Greek military pretensions as a hollow bluff, saw that Greece's future depended on the good will of the Powers, proceeded to play the future that way. He broke with previous Greek policy by joining the Balkan League of Bulgaria and Serbia and ganging on Turkey in the first Balkan War. This time Greece won. In the squabble over the spoils, alert Venizelos formed another alliance with Serbia and ganged on Bulgaria. Spoils: most of Macedonia and the Aegean...
When the World War broke, Venizelos brought up against the Danish stubbornness of Greece's Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg King Constantine I, who favored Germany. He hypocritically maintained "a very benevolent neutrality" toward the Allies. Pro-ally Venizelos was anathematized by an Archbishop of the Greek Church...
...accident broke five of the pedestrian's ribs, poking one of the ends into his right lung. At every breath he took, air leaked into the cavity of his chest. Shortly after Dr. Atkinson made the man comfortable, "it became apparent that the patient was literally blowing himself up more and more with each respiration. Within two-and-a-half hours of his admission [to the hospital], his appearance had changed entirely. From a moderately sized individual he had become an enormous, puffing, grunting balloon. His face became rounded; his neck so enlarged that his chin and chest were...
...Army duty in 1917. In Hollywood, where he still finds cinema work more satisfactory than in France, Charles Boyer last week finished acting in Paramount's Private Worlds, with Claudette Colbert. Last fortnight, rehearsing a scene which called for him to topple into an orchestra pit, he broke two ribs...
Four years ago, after he broke the England-Australia record in a tiny Gypsy-Moth, Flight Lieutenant Charles William Anderson Scott declared wearily: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds." But the long, tough course had not really beaten the onetime light-heavyweight boxing champion of the British Royal Air Force. Few months afterward he flew back to England in record time. Later he made a second trip, settled down to a job as commercial pilot in Australia, got his face permanently scarred when he dashed into a burning plane to save a passenger after...