Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alfred Emanuel Smith was sufficiently recovered from her broken arm (TIME, Feb. 11) to go with her husband to the Colony Club at Palm Beach. As do all musicians when the Smiths appear, the Colony Club orchestra broke into "The Sidewalks of New York." Mr. & Mrs. Smith rose, smiled, bowed, waltzed around the floor, which other dancers promptly deserted to watch them...
...hell, I am broke and have been for two years," said New York's onetime Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, haled into London court by Manhattan creditors...
Twenty-four hours later, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury broke off his grouse shooting at his lodge in Perthshire, Scotland long enough to deny the Moscow-Riga-Paris-U. S. news leak in the following words: "I have not bought the Alba Madonna or any other Soviet art. This story has cropped up recurrently for the past three years. Each time I have denied...
...proves unusually interesting. He was born in Hawaii 18 years ago and has lived there ever since. Unlike youngsters in schools in the United States, Peter never had the advantage of competitive swimming. In his first race at Harvard, which was really the first race in his life, he broke the Freshman record. A truly remarkable feat...
...attached to the country and its citizenry, he spent some $500,000 to give it a school system, vast sums for roads and other improvements. Once when "Joe" Knapp and a party of friends were dashing in a sea-sled to his Canadian fishing camp for salmon, the boat broke down. Instantly he resolved to buy the boat company, improve the craft, sell sea-sleds in mass production like Fords. After buying and building, he discovered that masses of people did not want a 40 m.p.h. boat that could not be used at night. "And that," said he last week...