Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sharpshooter on any kind of a shot, Broberg was the most discussed player in the league this year. He scored 159 points in the twelve games, setting a new record for the Eastern Intercollegiate League. Also, he twice broke the league record for scoring in one game, dropping in 26 and 25 points against Pennsylvania and Columbia respectively...
...Eastern studio in the 19203. Three years ago, he astounded the industry by announcing that he and Mussolini planned to build a "cinema city" on the outskirts of Rome, put Italy into cinema production on a grand scale. When the Hitler-Mussolini axis was formed, the Mussolini-Wanger axis broke. Wanger went on record as Hollywood's No. i anti-dictator producer by making Blockade and is now leading a move to revise Hollywood's famed Production Code, to permit producers to deal more frankly with controversial themes...
...Chicago last September the Federal Theatre poured old wine into a new bottle and got the whole town tipsy. Their Mikado, with an all-Negro cast, a South Sea Island setting and swing interpolations, became a smash hit overnight, in five months broke all Federal Theatre records by playing to 250,000 people and clearing...
When Count Ludwig Constantin Salm of Austria married Standard Oil Heiress Millicent Rogers in 1924, he was so broke that she had to buy the wedding ring. Last week, still broke and now divorced, he filed a petition in New York Supreme Court to have their 14-year-old son, Peter Salm, support him ($20,000 a year for himself, $10,000 a year for the expense of having his son visit, $35,000 for counsel fees). Reason: "It is the duty of a child possessing wealth to support a parent without funds...
Although he was limited to four points in the Cornell contest, Dartmouth's Gus Broberg is far out in front of the field in the individual scoring race. With eight points last night, he broke the League all-time scoring record of 151 set by Pennsylvania's McNicholl in 1921. Cornell's Jim Bennett is second and Walt Foertsch, also of Cornell, is in third position. HOOP STANDINGS College W L Pts. Op. Pts. Dartmouth 10 2 470 374 Columbia 8 3 410 347 Cornell 7 4 420 395 Pennsylvania 6 5 365 346 Princeton 5 6 359 346 Yale...