Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stuck Pig. In Mobile, Ala., a housewife, short of cash, guiltily broke into her baby's piggy bank, found only a note inside: "I.O.U. $5. (signed) Daddy...
...Banion was rubbed out. His mob half-killed Johnny Torrio with shotgun slugs, broke his nerve and drove him out of town. For a while, the O'Banions were as tough as Al's mob. Its leaders were hard and ambitious-George ("Bugs") Moran, Vincent ("The Schemer") Drucci and Earl (Hymie) Weiss, the rosary-fingering inventor of the one-way ride. One day seven automobile loads of O'Banion men parked in front of Al's GHQ in Cicero and riddled it with Tommy guns. Al escaped. The O'Banions were not really broken until...
...city's population withered, but the garrison stood fast. A year ago the Communists attacked across the lake's frozen surface, were repulsed in a savage, three-day battle when the ice broke under them. After that, Yungnien boatmen chopped out a wide moat. The Communists sat tight at the artificial lake's boat approaches, and inside Yungnien the stores of grain ran out. Deficiency diseases appeared, and the city swarmed with germ-spreading vermin...
...first big postwar concert outside Norway (where her husband died in prison, charged with collaboration), she was booked into the theater where ex-Vichyman Alfred Cortot had played the piano to mixed cheers and boos (TiME, Jan. 27). When Flagstad walked onstage, the crowd was silent a moment-then broke into applause. To more applause, and tumultuous cheers, she sang some Grieg songs, and excerpts from Wagner in German. Said Flagstad, heading for London: "My conscience is clear...
...thousand books. To keep his instruments in tune he seldom turns on the radiator ("My friends stay away in the winter to keep from catching cold"). He plays Bach and Mozart with a hard, dry purity-and sometimes, say critics, with a little too much banging. He long ago broke with Teacher Landowska, whose playing is more showy and dramatic. Says Kirkpatrick starchily: "Landowska is a great artist. But other artists take different ways. It generally means a break." Wanda Landowska also long ago stopped speaking of Kirkpatrick as her pupil. Says she: "Shall we say, my pupils must...