Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playtime. In Louisville, Norma and Charlotte Eppihimer broke a neighbor's window, entered, smashed two sets of china, emptied the refrigerator on the kitchen floor, basted the mess with mustard, scattered the contents of some bedroom dressers, built a fire on the livingroom floor, knifed a chicken, let the mule out of the pasture, and painted the family cat & dog green...
...ships gaily hung with bunting. We inquired what was happening and were told that there would be a procession out to sea; so we got into a vessel and went along. As we returned, we saw the people on the piers first jeering, then cheering, and the fishermen broke into a song to the Madonna. I asked a fisherman, 'What's going on now?' and he explained that Fiumicino's new clock had just been inaugurated and that they had had 'a terrible time with the leftists...
...Women's Organization to War on Styles. In a few days, the W.O.W.S. rounded up 750 members, started picketing a dress shop in bathing suits. "We Have Nothing to Hide," said their placards, "Do We Need Padding?" At Valdosta, Ga., businessmen joined the fun, chartered the League of Broke Husbands, went picketing, too. A Georgia legislator announced that he would soon introduce a bill banning long skirts. Detroit's street-railway boss declared that long skirts made the boarding of streetcars hazardous...
Catholics are accused of Fascism. The bitter struggle that rends all Italy recently broke out, in miniature, at Fiumicino. It was known as the "Clock Fight...
Helen Hayes, whose playwright husband, Charles MacArthur, slipped in the shower last year and cracked a rib, slipped in the same shower, grabbed at a porcelain grip, broke it, sliced her right forearm ten stitches worth...