Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silence broke when a refugee hit the officer full in the face with a five...
Dadswell's roving is the current phase of an old restlessness. He was 16 when he broke in as a columnist ("Village Gossip by the Boy Reporter") on the old Chicago American. Two years later he scooped the U.S. press when he interviewed Bandit Pancho Villa in Mexico. Since then, on a dozen different papers, he has been in every newspaper slot from reporter to publisher-editor, with time out as photographer, newsreel cameraman, and front man for circuses...
...confesses that he bought a $5,000 diamond for $25 from a mysterious Mexican, discovered it was a zircon "not worth a buck." He has the reckless savvy of the smart fellow who retires on his earnings (he did in 1926, 1938, 1945), and then shows up broke for a fresh start. But if his new column brings him another competence, Dadswell insists it will have to come from little papers. He has promised never to raise his rates ($10 monthly for papers under 10,000 circ.). In his growing string he is proudest of the Cambridge (Md.) Banner...
...intensification of the crisis. On the night before the fateful holdup, one Joseph J. Hall set out on a nefarious enterprise with one Ronald E. Fisher. But when Hall realized that Fisher was trying to make him rob a church, he got religion and called the police: "We broke into a church, but I'm not going through with it." The house of God on East Fourth Street, thus providentially spared, was the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America...
...sort of modern Kit Carson, the strong silent Gary Cooper plainsman type. He'll always be broke-else why would he take all these queer jobs? He'll have lots of gals-one at every port. Naturally one of the problems will be to keep him single. I want to make him one of those guys that's sloppy as hell in his flying clothes, then can get dressed up in the evening and look like...