Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sonja Henie, robbed of $28,000 worth of furs last January when thieves broke into her Manhattan hotel room, was robbed of $35,000 worth of furs and clothes by thieves who broke into a truck carrying her luggage...
...Louis, already tagged with a $500,000 alienation of affections suit by a Chicago clergyman named Matthew Faulkner, was named corespondent in the minister's divorce suit against Carolle Drake ("Mattie") Faulkner, a Manhattan model. Said Joe, whose own marriage broke up four months ago: "My relations with Mrs. Faulkner never went beyond the bounds of friendship...
Case No. 13 was the murder of 79-year-old Herman Engelhard, a miserly recluse worth $99,000. The hoodlums who broke into Engelhard's drab South Side apartment in April 1948 were counting on a big haul, but all they got was $12. Just the day before, Engelhard had deposited his cash in a bank. The maddened robbers beat Engelhard over the head with an iron pipe and left...
...broke all the TV rules & regulations on this show," says Lord. "The camera doesn't shift around, it stays on people's faces. The only time it moves is to show the bag of their trousers or the length of a sleeve. The courtroom is only in there for conflict-I wanted just to look at people's faces...
Grillparzer on schedule. During dinner there, a fire broke out in the kitchen and spread through the imitation Wienerwald. In trying to rescue Sharpy Cullen from the men's room, Richard perished in the fire, too rapidly to round out his life with one last epigram but not rapidly enough to prevent his getting the details of all but his last gasp into the memoirs-presumably by some sort of magic...