Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maury was taking an interest again in his home town. This week he filed his candidacy for mayor. His chances looked good. He was a little greyer, a little fatter; he was almost broke, and he no longer talked with his old sass. But San Antonio seemed to want a man without too many surprises...
Revived, Mrs. Chimes broke up two small orange crates (cruelly labeled "Sunkist") and kindled a puny blaze in her stove. She went to the icy window, peered down the street in the hope of a glimpse of her husband. Unemployed now, he had gone out ahead of her to queue up at the greengrocer's for a few potatoes. Mrs. Chimes turned to her tiny kitchen and a pile of clothes awaiting washing. She sighed...
...Brown bears were looking at the ceiling of their Providence wrestling room when their bouts ended last night, as Chief Boston's Varsity wrestlers emphatically broke their losing streak with a resounding 30 to 8 win over a hapless crew of grapplers from Brown University...
...earlier game, a Lowell House five trimmed Winthrop, 45 to 31, as Fred Donahoe contributed 14 points to the Bell-boy's total. The encounter broke a fourth place tie between the two teams...
...Life of Mozart," despite its Continental origin, is disfigured with every one of the flaws which have so consistently distinguished Hollywood's musical biographies. The philosophy which broke Cole Porter's leg to provide a crisis for "Night and Day" has unfortunately seeped into the portrayal of a real composer: it is made all the more annoying by the realization that such an expedient is equivalent to tinning the lily which is Mozart's life...