Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Internal Revenue. In Cobh, Eire, Rachel Finn paid a shilling for eggs, took them home, broke one, found a shilling inside...
...that he was there to denounce the highly touted project of the new French union incorporated in the constitution as "codifying a new colonialism as dangerous as the colonialism of yesterday. The colonial policy of France was one of the principal sores of the Third Republic." An angry clamor broke out in the Chamber. Some rightist and center deputies stalked out in indignation. Others, including MRP President Maurice Schumann, bolted from their seats toward the speaker in a menacing fashion, shouting insults as they came. Algerian followers of Abbas got ready to join the seemingly inevitable melee as the siren...
Never before had they heard or seen such a speaker. He cracked jokes, talked fast, talked slow, beat his chest with his fists, waved his arms in circles, crouched, whirled, broke off his most telling sentences to invite applause. In the hall of Panama City's Inter-American University, Panamanian students roared approval. Yes, they liked the man from Peru, Victor Raul Haya de la Torre...
Perhaps the reason is, as Carl Sandburg suggests in a preface to this book, that Lincoln had a wide variety of styles-a greater range than any other U.S. statesman or orator. He wrote gravely and inspiringly at times, colloquially and waggishly at others. Now & then, he even broke out into doggerel. Sample (from something called The Bear Hunt...
...tabloid Daily Mirror, "Cassandra" (William Connor), whose outspoken column almost got the paper suppressed for baiting the Churchill government four years ago, was back at his old stand. A rash of new bylines and comic strips broke out all over, and Londoners at long last could have more than a snifter of sports news...