Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...money players stayed in the money. Finishing with a smoking 68 Sam Snead broke the tournament record by two strokes with 280, seemed the winner. Ralph Guldahl started the last nine needing a 33, three under par, to beat him. He got a birdie, two pars. Then he hit a weak, 22O-yd. drive on the 480-yd. 13th and his jig seemed to be up. His ball was in a downhill lie; yawning in front of the green 260 yards away was a deep, water-filled ravine. Without hesitation Guldahl took a spoon instead of a safe iron, swung...
...years two of the finest U. S. symphony orchestras have had this letdown: Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony (Toscanini to Barbirolli); the Philadelphia Orchestra (Stokowski to Eugene Ormandy). The Philharmonikers have kept a stiff upper lip, but the Philadelphians, after brooding and glooming for a whole season, last week broke out in a williwaw...
...indirect consequences of the dance craze launched by the Castles was the Charleston, which broke out in 1925. One of the consequences of the Charleston was a series of Charleston contests which raged in all U. S. cities in 1925 and 1926. These Charleston contests bred Hollywood stars (Joan Crawford, Carole Lombard) as swamps breed mosquitoes. When little Ginger Rogers won a State Charleston contest in Dallas in November 1925, her destiny was settled...
...this time it was clear that something not diminutive was scaring speculators. Day after the Angas rumor, panicky selling avalanched from all over the U. S. U. S. Steel broke through $50. Volume hit 2,890,000 shares and both Dow-Jones industrial and rail averages broke through their previous lows, reaching 131.84 and 26.38 respectively...
...years too soon. As a general, he prematurely emancipated the slaves in his district. As an explorer, he became such a popular favorite at 29 after his first Western trip, that later and harder journeys were anticlimactic. He raised the U. S. flag in California before the Mexican War broke out. He was born out of wedlock and married in haste. He fell in love with smart, ambitious Jessie Benton, daughter of Missouri's great Senator, but she was only fifteen; he married her secretly two years later, before he had her father's consent...