Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stated that when Armstrong played Chicago, listening musicians did their listening, "worshipfully." Among those mentioned was Cornetist Bix Beiderbecke . . . One night at the Plantation Cafe on Chicago's South Side, Armstrong and Beiderbecke were having a battle of the horns. When Louis heard Bix, he broke into tears and admitted he could never play as well...
...West's moral community broke under the impact of great historic forces. It began to neglect a simple truth-that liberty, as Edmund Burke put it, cannot exist "without order and virtue...
...eyed the dignitaries with evident satisfaction, a friend explained to me succinctly: "He has the food, they have the titles." Around a statue of the Archangel Michael, grass skirts and American zoot-suits, favored by Munich's youthful social elite, whirled till dawn. Morning found most of Munich broke and badly hung over...
Unwanted Workers. A few days before that, Comrade Evita broke the printers' strike that had kept the capital without newspapers for three weeks. This was accomplished by importing 58 printers from the provinces. She personally handed each man $210, promised $20 a day and free meals at the fancy midtown El Ciervo restaurant, then packed all of them off to plants where they were needed most. One by one, the newspapers reappeared. By week's end the strikers were back at work -except for 40%, who had lost their jobs in the shuffle...
Golfer Ben Hogan, 36, who broke pelvis, collarbone, ankle and rib in an auto crash five weeks ago, had an abdominal operation to clear up a "critical" blood clot condition. He was reported in "good condition" after the operation, but it would still take him a couple of months to fully recover from the fractures...