Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scuttlebutt. In Kansas City, whoever broke the window of the Sound Radio Service store ignored the four genuine radio sets on display, scuttled off with the only dummy...
Land to the Tillers. But not leathery General Li Tsung-jen, the dark horse from Kwangsi. He broke boldly with the Chinese custom of never praising oneself: "My election would symbolize the triumph of the common people." He boasted of his plebeian origin. As a farm boy he had tended water buffalo, plowed paddy fields, split kindling; so he understood the hardships of the peasants. "Without solving the peoples' livelihood," he declared, "all military ventures are doomed to failure." He urged "land to the tillers," an end to "bureaucratic capital," cleanup of corruption, more capable men in government, frank...
...downstream for the start of the last heat of the afternoon, Winthrop's stroke "Dunc" McCollester broke his oar in a fit of youthful exhuberance, delaying the race till the late supper hour. It proved to be an ill omen for hapless Dudley's octet, which chopped its way past the white flag roughly a minute after Winthrop...
...atmosphere of the big quadrangle at sunset also contributed to the not unpleasant incongruity of the concert. Last year G. Wallace Wood-worth broke up his Mozart and Bach with "Casey Jones" and part of "Three Saints in Four Acts," both of which lose less when they are played in the Great Outdoors, and the languorous audience was a bit more responsive. As it was, the pigeons above Widener, a passing fire engine on Kirkland Street, and the murmur of the crowd stretched on the grass were distracting to the Glee Club, which was seriously singing serious works...
...many pretty girls, and about 1858, a separate Glee Club was formed. This group gave many joint concerts with Pierian, and the two groups would go out troubadoring many times until "the stupid interference of the officers of the law" finally caught up with the customs and broke it for good...