Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, absent from the White House for the second wedding anniversary in a row, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt broke the monotony of a lecture tour to call on Shirley Temple, who announced, without revealing her reason, that she was soon going to Washington to see the President. Wrote Mrs. Roosevelt in My Day: "I hope she will not delay her visit too long." In Washington, a delegation of Massachusetts Democrats led by State Committeeman Charles Maliotis, who operates three restaurants and owns some real estate in Boston, called on James Roosevelt to ask him to run for Lieutenant Governor next autumn...
...motorcycles, squealed as they rode up the elevator to the top of Albuquerque's eight-story First National Bank Building. Although their hosts had not planned it, they were educated in pain as well as pleasure: as they watched Albuquerque's firemen climb a building, a rope broke. Firemen Frank Parenti and George Tafoya fell 40 feet, were seriously injured. The children agreed to spend part of the money they had been saving for playground equipment to send flowers to the firemen...
...remember," the Vagabond broke in, "that was last Spring! Why--why, Spring is here...
After hearing Professor Dirk J. Stuick, of M.I.T. explain the relation of Marxism to science, the John Reed Society broke wide open just as compromise was in sight on allowing non-Marxist talks to be heard...
POEMS-Rex Warner-Knopf ($2). When of late years the Anglo-Communism of Oxford Poets Auden, Spender, Day Lewis broke the ice of post-War English poetry, fellow Oxonian Rex Warner started skating on one of the smaller cakes. More of a country man than an Anglo-Communist, more of an Anglo-Communist than a poet, his best poems are honest descriptions, his worst, honest cant...