Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blue Bells for Scotland. When the war broke out, Jimmy joined the Army and asked for combat. When his troopship docked in Scotland, he stood in the bow with his golden cornet and played The Blue Bells of Scotland, sweet and lovingly. Then he broke into half a dozen low-driving hot choruses. One witness said: "They like to never got that ship docked. That horn held up the war." Jimmy kept Bix's golden horn in his pack when he landed in Normandy. One night, at a U.S.O. show, he met a girl named Marion Page, billed...
Welles.put up more resistance. He first ignored, then rudely rebuffed the young man. After a month of persistent trying, however, Markle finally broke down the Welles defenses, persuaded his target to listen to a recorded parody of Welles in action. Impressed, Orson let the youngster repeat the parody on his Mercury Sum mer Theater program and invited Markle to Hollywood to do a screen version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. The production fell through, but Markle is disgusted with movies, anyway, and with "that terrible place" (Hollywood). If movies could be made in "civilized" New York, he thinks...
Straightway a storm of protest broke around radio's brasshats. The big wind mounted to cyclone velocity after the net works gave the silent treatment to Bob Hope (eight seconds) and to Red Skelton (twelve seconds), who both tried to get in the act on their Tuesday night programs...
...tight game, the Ephmen held a 5 to 4 lead. But the Crimson took possession of the ball on the opening draw of the crucial final period and at the 53-second mark Captain Jay Hurley scored on a pass from Dick Bezanson. Six minutes later Estin broke loose for the solo score which proved to be the game winning tally. Hurley led the Harvard attack with two goals and an assist while substitute goalie Bernard sparkled on the defense...
Hysteria, the endemic malady of the Boston Press, broke loose again yesterday as the Traveler caught sight of female figures in the Harvard Yard and let out its biennial cry of "co-education...