Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white co-religionist reserved a room together at the Stevens. The friend arrived and claimed the room. When Mr. Downs asked for his key "pandemonium broke out." Many excuses were offered, but the stock excuse, "all rooms occupied," could not be made. Finally another was found. Maids and hall boys hastily removed the twin beds from the room and replaced them with a double bed, and Mr. Downs was told "two persons cannot sleep in the same bed unless they are married...
...life of the romantic Bostonian, John Jay Chapman, with its independence, unfulfilled promise and notes of morbidity, demonstrates Wilson's thesis: "The Americans who graduated from college in the eighties found themselves up against a world which broke most of them. . . . They could no longer play the role in the professions of a trained and public-spirited caste: the new society did not recognize them." As is usual in Wilson's writing, his most penetrating insights are incorporated into the body of his writing, so unaccented and interwoven with descriptions of scene that casual readers may not recognize...
Three 20-yard pool marks stand out: Princetonians Dick Hough and Al Van de Weghe swam 2:23.4 in the breaststroke and 1:33 in the backstroke respectively, while Kendall's out-of-league 4:46 quarter-mile broke a national intercollegiate record...
...during an overhaul. In Southampton last month flames blazed for two hours below decks, burned out a section of the Berengaria's, third class, but did not prevent her sailing to the U. S. on schedule. While she was tied up in Manhattan last week a fresh fire broke out at 3:15 a. m., a few hours before her return-trip sailing. It smoldered for three hours, did an estimated $10,000 damage to the cabin lounge. Aboard were 75 passengers, some of whom rushed on deck in night clothes. The line then announced that first-class passengers...
Featured by Frank Powers' heart-breaking loss in the 220 to Snyder, of Yale, in the excellent time of 2:19.7, the Freshmen natators lost to the Elis, 47 to 28. Clocked in 2:29.8, Paul Metcalfe, Blue breastroker, broke his own National Intercollegiate Freshman record for the event. The Crimson mermen were best in the backstroke, as Captain Art Bosworth and Charlie Moore took first and second, and in the quarter-mile, when Lon Stowell and Bob White placed...