Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often as possible, and when they did chance to dine in Commons, to treat it as a sort of unofficial playground and circus area. The whole early history of the building's first floor features rebellion and riot, which started on a major scale in 1818, when food war broke out between classes. Each class ate in a different room, but communication was possible through the portholes, and on this particular Sunday night, all kinds of edibles flew through the air with the greatest of case from one room to the next. A poem commemorated the event, which brought aging...
...Five weeks later, Stalin broke the silence again, made all but one of these points in reply to questions from U.P. President Hugh Baillie...
...joined Churchill. As the argument grew hot between them, a crowd of M.P.s gathered around. As Churchill, still wrapped in his bulky overcoat, waved his arms up & down, Attlee seemed to shrink in size. They talked earnestly for a few moments, then Churchill's chubby face, still flushed, broke into a smile. The thunderstorm was over and they parted amicably. An M.P. privately explained: "Churchill also had difficulty with Wavell. He didn't give any reason when he fired Wavell from his Middle East command. There has been growing friction between Wavell and the Government...
...Mammas") Tucker. Her estimate: $75,000. Ex-Scandals Producer George White, six months in a California work camp after an auto accident in which he killed two people, lost his plea for parole (he said he had pyorrhea and a bum knee), went back to tending sheep. When fire broke out in the radio of her husband's private plane, Cinemadventuress Veronica Lake smothered it with her mink coat, was forced to appear in furs borrowed from a friend. Frank Sinatra was bedded in Acapulco, Mexico, with intestinal trouble and a high fever. Crooner Dick Haymes went...
...hours later, Frye announced his resignation from T.W.A. Thus, after many a month of well-chronicled discord, the most famous U.S. airline team finally broke...