Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the result was announced before the Assembly, members remained seated on Left benches and shouted with gusto "Resign! Resign!" The Right answered with cries of "Go home to Moscow!" Finally strains of La Marseillaise broke out, and soon everyone was singing the anthem, enjoying a patriotic thrill in that unity against aggressors which President Lebrun represents...
...reach San Francisco. At a pipsqueak reception on Treasure Island he collected the only prize, $750, and headed for home. Day or two later other contestants began to clatter in. One ranch hand, lost, tethered his horse in front of the San Francisco Stock Exchange. All were stony broke...
...huge following during four years as "Ambassador of Sports" at Washington's WJSV. Rabid fan John Nance Garner called him "the World's Greatest Baseball Announcer." Thousands cheered him when he once dared obscene and unidentified telephoners to meet him somewhere and fight like men.* When he broke his ankle last summer and broadcast from a hospital bed, small boys sneaked past guards, climbed through transoms, even hid in ambulances to visit Arch. Those who couldn't get in shouted questions at his window, and Arch shouted answers back...
...sure way to pick a fight with Arch McDonald is to touch him with peach fuzz. He has a holy horror of it, once broke the jaw of a joker who rubbed some...
...Wisconsin 39 years ago, President Dixon has been making locomotives -first with American Locomotive Co., since 1916 with Lima. At 61 he is portly, neat, given to anecdote (Sally Rand's bubble once burst and landed in his lap; he swears "it wasn't my cigar that broke it"). An engineer who tinkers in his own machine shop in the cellar of his East Orange, N. J. home, he is also a good salesman, a rabid Republican. His chief irritation is that the view from his Manhattan window includes a large picture of Franklin Roosevelt on a desk...