Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, one of the capital's most striking relatives back in the Herbert Hoover era broke into the papers again with a bang (and a Hat) the day after the great Republican landslide. Photographed with Bess Truman at the Washington Club was Dolly Gann, onetime vice presidential sister, whose brave struggles in the capital's social war used to make national news...
...Chase (Nebenzal-United Artists) never runs quite fast enough to catch up with its good thriller beginning. A broke and hungry ex-G.I. (Robert Cummings) finds a bill-heavy pocketbook on a Miami sidewalk and returns the lost property to its gangster owner (Steve Cochran). Highly amused by such "stupid" honesty, the gangster and his henchman (Peter Lorre) give Cummings a job as chauffeur...
Late in the second period the Crimson broke into the scoring column when Phil Potter, playing center forward, took a pass from midfield, pivoted and drilled a line-drive kick into the far corner of the Husky goal from 25 yards...
...Bass, a cheerful and rotund New Yorker who is now her business adviser. Both were already married,† but they got divorces and were married by the Mayor of Weehawken, N.J. in October 1938. Then came the hardest times of Helen Traubel's life. She and Bill were broke. In a dark two-room West syth Street apartment near Carnegie Hall they cooked occasional lamb stews, sometimes had to scrape up money for food by cashing in on their empty milk and soda-pop bottles. They visited the Central Park zoo, and for evenings out, walked down to 42nd...
...turned out to be an Earl Carroll dancer. Indio was picked up by the Edgewater Beach theatrical crowd, and his proficiency at Latin dances attracted the attention of Rudolph Valentino, who became his friend. After Valentino's death, Indio rode the funeral train to Los Angeles, landed there broke and jobless...