Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Touch. But all his life he had walked a financial tightrope. He had tried to engineer a pool to raise the price of Devoe & Raynolds common stock in 1926, had gone resoundingly broke to the tune of $3,000,000. He had piled venture on venture, money on money. In the '30s, he had formed a working partnership with Joseph Watkins, a cultivated, gracious man, like Brooks a native of Minnesota, a Harvard graduate, and a financier. They worked together, dined together, and made money together. Then Brooks seemed to lose his touch. Watkins was forced to supply more...
...Kolman broke in: "You have freedom of the press, but it's only on paper...
...Bottle. During a speech to a country audience, Munoz once stopped to take a swig from a Coke bottle. "That's our man!" somebody yelled. "He drinks ,from the bottle!" "Wait a minute," Munoz broke in. "If you vote for me just because I drink from the bottle, you'll start voting for everybody who drinks out of bottles...
...people were "in the area," which could be said of Rockefeller Center any weekday. The Daily News headlined: RUTH'S LAST GATE HIS GREATEST. The News was realistic enough to report that "hardly had the family left the cemetery when the inevitable horde of souvenir hunters broke through a rope barrier and began picking at the remaining mass of floral tributes...
Tough School. Jack Lait is one of the hard-schooled, shrewd, and devoted $52,000-a-year men who make the Hearst-papers what they are. Born in lower Manhattan, Lait went to school in Chicago with the late Eleanor Medill Patterson. He broke in on the police beat for the late Chicago American, covered the rise of gangs, lived through the rough & tumble Front Page days...