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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cushman was outstanding for the Dudley quintet. He constantly broke up Leverett plays and led his team in scoring with eight points. Dave Belcher was high man for the losers with eight points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Quintet Takes Tenth; Dudley Bowls Over Leverett | 3/1/1949 | See Source »

Selling Point. In Manhattan, Kans., Ellis Stackfleth invited an accident insurance salesman to come back later, followed him out of the house, fell on the icy pavement, broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...Golden Hours. "Little things irritated him: you didn't cut toast-you broke it. Or maybe you didn't break it, you cut it. Whatever it was, you always got it wrong . . . Father had a great sense of drama. In the Middle Ages he would have been a cardinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: The Man from Middletown | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...lawyer in her suit against her father and stepmother. They wanted to "railroad" her to an insane asylum, she said, purportedly to get their hands on her cash. One day she used jujitsu on an opposing lawyer; the next day she "became the traditionally soft woman-tears and all ... broke down . . . and wept freely . . . several jurors and spectators wept with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back to Abnormal | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...When Floral Park's handsome society physician, Dr. Herbert J. Bernhardt, broke into the apartment of his estranged wife, Mary, brandishing a crowbar and followed by five ax-wielding minions, the woman from downstairs screamed, the two babies woke up crying in the back room and the dance instructor dropped his demitasse and fell off his chair." Tabloid readers just had to read to see what happened after the instructor and the demitasse hit the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back to Abnormal | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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