Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rosalind Russell (home from Hollywood on vacation), packed in and around the courtroom to hear the verdict: "Guilty." Tears filled the hard eyes of Boss Hayes, 56. "It was in the cards," he gulped, but he strode out of court with his chin up. State's Attorney Alcorn broke his 30-year precedent of not commenting on verdicts. Said he: "No Connecticut jury has ever rendered a greater public service...
Last week, when Dr. Leach rolled into Manhattan in his twelve-cylinder red Cadillac for the 45th annual convention of the N. M. A., the storm broke. A small group of Manhattan physicians, led by distinguished Skull-Surgeon Louis Tompkins Wright, started a movement to oust President-elect Leach. But Dr. Leach clung on. He insisted that he had been framed by Federal agents in 1928. "I had only one quart of Sandy MacDonald in my possession," he said, "and I was taking it home for my personal use." He promised to resign if the convention would only pass...
...think he saw my feelings." Gradually Caroline replaced literature with laudanum and brandy. Sometimes she broke $1,000 worth of china in a morning...
Paul Sears (Deserts on the March, This Is Our World) believes that the U. S. is playing ducks & drakes with its natural resources, may wake up stony broke one fine day. His book explains the physical basis of contemporary civilization, "the interrelations of living things." Not too solemn about Science, Professor Sears illustrates his discourse with such examples as the famed connection between the number of elderly spinsters in England and the prosperity of Australia. Spinsters like to keep cats, cats kill field mice, preventing them from destroying bees, which pollinate clover, whose seeds Australia must import from England...
...broke up this amiable relationship: New England-born Edward Colburne, and Virginia-born Lieutenant-Colonel Carter, a dark-haired, hard-drinking, segar-smoking veteran of many wars and love affairs, a widower of nearly 40 who had stayed with the Union despite mysterious intrigues with Southern filibusters before the war. Intelligent, discerning, timid, young Colburne let the Colonel walk off with Lillie. She was almost annoyed about it. Colburne, she thought, was "very pleasant, lively and good; but-and here she ceased to reason-she felt that he was not magnetic." The Colonel certainly was. When all four turned...