Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning last week, a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train was chuffing through the Juniata River Gap, west of Huntingdon, Pa. A heavy steel plate broke loose from its lashing on a flatcar, swung out wide. The P.R.R.'s crack New York-to-St. Louis American was passing on the adjoining track. The steel nicked the engine, scraped three mail and baggage cars, then slashed murderously into the side of a coach. Sleeping passengers were hurled, dazed and bleeding, into the aisle. Another plate toppled over to the opposite track into the path of an eastbound freight, derailed...
...Speaker began his swift reading of the Government measures. Shouts of "No . . . No ... I say No, sir!" broke into his drone. Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, the humorist who finds parliamentary didos far from funny, was angrily shouting and waving his arms to rally the Opposition benches. From Labor's benches came a howl of "Miaow . . . miaow." In a moment the chamber was in uproar. But the Speaker droned on. Many Conservative and Liberal M.P.s stalked out in disgust at this unprecedented scene of legislation being pushed through to the accompaniment of undignified howling...
...fuss. Determined to make her the world's best, her father, a former golf-course owner, had started her golfing at four. Usually Marlene considers golf fun, but a few weeks ago she had balked at practicing. Father, putting on an act of what he called "wrathful psychology," broke her niblick over his knee. She cried, repented, and went back to her practicing, thereupon won the Palm Springs Invitational Tournament (with play that included a par 70). Marlene's ambition: to beat National Champion Babe Didrikson Zaharias...
Yesterday the Jayvees played host to Suffolk University and succumbed, 7 to 2, when the visitors broke a scoreless tie in the eighth inning to score all their runs...
...chief failure of the play, however, was in the individual performances. The general run achieved a wooden mediocrity which broke the back of any attempt to maintain the professional illusion which has characterized recent HDC and other local efforts. Others were more objectionable: Walter Frank completely misplayed Joxer, making him a large and boisterous knave instead of the small, whining rogue he is; and Robert Lubchansky was oily to an unpleasant extreme as Bentham...