Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broke?" said the friend...
...Yeah," said Mr. Keltner, shifting his gum. "I'm broke...
...Soviet Government broke a peace it had long preached and plunged into the kind of a war it had time & again decried had many explanations and many puzzles. Perhaps the Kremlin feared an anti-Comintern peace in the West-a peace in which Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain would join together against the U.S.S.R.-and was merely strengthening Russia's land and sea approaches against the day when the "land of workers and peasants" would have to be defended unto death. Another theory was that Dictator Stalin was determined to restore to his country the lands that belonged...
...Rome some 300 uniformed Fascist youths, returning from afternoon drill, broke ranks and demonstrated violently in front of the Soviet Embassy. Most Italian papers were cautious in their comments but Il Telegrafo, organ of Foreign Minister Count Ciano, disapprovingly observed, "In the great Nordic plain of the Continent the wolves are having their...
Just after World War II broke, several socialite groups sought the patronage of Mme Gamelin, wife of the French Generalissimo, and one, reputedly, received this characteristic note: "My wife excuses herself for being too busy to reply personally to your request that she be honorary president of your organization, and asks me to present her regrets. (Signed) Maurice Gamelin...