Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Daily News's gushing "Nancy Randolph" broke the vows of silence to print the details of the royal wedding dress; "so intricately contrived," said Nancy, as to be "surely uncopyable save by Little People in a glen." Thus reassured, London papers described the dress...
Admission. Next morning the tempest he had so casually stirred up broke on Dalton. Tory M.P. Victor Raikes told Dalton that he would ask a question in the House about the tip to the Star. After a routine Cabinet meeting, Dalton took Attlee aside and admitted his indiscretion. He offered his resignation. That afternoon a much subdued Dalton arose in the House of Commons to answer Raikes's question. "I appreciate that this was a grave indiscretion on my part," he intoned, "for which I offer my deep apologies to the House...
Actor Basil Rathbone, 55, came a painful cropper. His black police dog, Maritza, snapped the leash while the two were strolling in Manhattan's Central Park; Maritza leaped a high wall and dashed into Fifth Avenue traffic; Rathbone tried to follow suit, fell over the wall, broke his left wrist, and fainted. Skipped: one performance of the Broadway hit, The Heiress. Thereafter he villainized with his arm in a cast...
...Richmond, Old School Stylist James Branch Cabell, who knows a lot of words, broke his accustomed silence to inform his publishers that he was writing a new book. "I do not think that to announce the book as 'in preparation,' " wrote Cabell, bringing memories of the oldtime Cabellian vocabulary thronging, "should be regarded as hubris...
Since 1919, when it broke away from the Communist-suppressed mother church in Moscow, the largest branch of North American Orthodoxy has sadly, steadfastly maintained its autonomy. Not that there has been a lack of interest on the part of Moscow's Patriarch Alexei and his new friends in the Kremlin. In 1945, the Patriarch sent an archbishop to the U.S. with concessions aimed to bring the exiles back into the fold; but the North American hierarchy refused. Four months ago, another church dignitary arrived from Moscow in a hopeful mood. Last week he was on his way home...