Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night about a year ago a hideous row broke out in the baroness' shack. Scullion Lorenz took shelter with the neighboring Wittmers for several months. After a while he returned to the baroness...
...Lehigh broke the Lafayette jinx that goes back five years in a 68-game series...
Jealousy (Columbia). To a familiar subject this picture adds only a few superficial footnotes. A prize-fighter (George Murphy) meditates dubiously the relation between his fiancée (Nancy Carroll) and her employer. After he marries her and goes broke, the doll-faced wife gets a new job from the old employer, whose identity she conceals from her husband. The prize-fighter discovers the two together just after they have been viewing samples of costume jewelry. In a scuffle the employer is killed. The prize-fighter wanders off in a daze while his wife is tried and convicted of murder...
...father with difficulty got him acquitted, Tarabas was shipped off to the U.S. In Manhattan he made violent love to a Russian waitress, made more violent scenes when she cast her eyes elsewhere. He might have landed in a serious scrape when he throttled her employer, but war broke out just then, and Tarabas went back to Russia to fight the Germans...
...with a curse. The War swallowed Tarabas up. He could not go home even if he had wanted to, for his native town was soon inside the German lines. But Tarabas thrived on war, got medals, promotion, respect and fear. Out of a job when the Revolution broke up the Russian Army, Tarabas went home with the faithful fragment of his regiment, only to find that his native land was no longer a part of Russia but an independent country. As commander of the garrison town of Koropta, Tarabas was not so happy or so successful as he had been...