Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the old fort above Portsmouth dockyard a gun boomed out last week, and the Union Jack broke from the halyards of Admiral Nelson's famed old wooden flagship, the Victory. In the courtyard before the barracks honor guards of bluejackets and Royal Marines snapped to present arms as nine high officers, walking stiffly in the epaulets and cocked hats of their full dress uniforms, entered the building to hold an exciting court martial...
...Owing to the fact that the promoters did not implement true political liberty to the people and the people had no opportunity of voicing their opinion before an important policy was undertaken, revolt broke out, involving civil war. When I asked that the Constitution should be changed to conform to true democracy in order to satisfy the people, the Government and its party, which now hold complete power in their hands, refused. . . . I am unable to agree that any party should carry on an administration in this way under cover of my name...
...then about-faced and once more set out for mid-stream. Once more the ice broke. This time, several hitherto unnoticed men appeared with a ladder and skidded it out to him. A second rescue was under way, while the gentlemen of the ladder jotted down, sentences in a notebook regarding its progress. This procedure, it was discovered, was one of a series of experiments put on by the Red Cross to gather data for a treatise...
Daytona Beach, Fla., March 7--Sir Malcolm Campbell broke three more world's records in addition to the one-mile mark when he drove down the sands of Daytona Beach today...
...November another Mellon art story broke. The 79-year-old Pittsburgh multi-millionaire was supposed to be preparing to turn over all his pictures to a new public museum to be built either in Pittsburgh or Washington. Again Mr. Mellon came forth with a solemn, straight-faced denial...