Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that I am interested in maintaining that the founder was an inspired prophet, yet I can and do say that if he was a polygamist, if he was responsible for the alleged document on polygamy. . . which we do not believe and which we emphatically deny, then he broke both the law of God and the laws of the land, and to that extent was a "fallen" prophet...
Distress Sale. In Nice, France, where condemned men pay for their traditional, hearty last supper, condemned but broke Collaborationist Eugéne de Balinfly raised cash for his by having four teeth yanked, selling the gold crowns...
Tempers flared. Dewey sat up and pulled from his pocket a pair of toy Scotty dogs, which he placed on the conference table. Magnetized, they sprang together. Everybody laughed and Dewey slouched back. When sparks began to fly again, he broke in with a dirty story...
Quicker than he could say pardon!, another announcer broke in: "Atomic energy has turned [into a] Frankenstein [monster and] mastered its inventors. Shattering explosions have rent the earth from Siberia to Ontario...
...caught the eye of a cabaret owner, who took her inside, made her sing in her threadbare skirt and sweater. After her first song there was a sepulchral silence. "A thousand thoughts went through my mind," she says. "Did my miserable appearance make them feel ashamed?" Then the hall broke into a long thunder of applause. Maurice Chevalier rose to his feet and cried: "Elle en a plein le ventre, la môme" ("The kid's got plenty of stuff...