Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lionel Barrymore, 70, who has been trouping from a wheel chair since he broke his hip in a 1936 studio fall, might soon be back on his feet. He walked with the help of a handrail in his latest picture, now hobbles around the studio on crutches. After he sheds 20 pounds and gets fitted with a leather corset contraption, he will try walking without the crutches...
Safety Catch. In San Diego, workmen at the U.S. Grant Hotel reported that they had to scramble to a safer place when a fire broke out on the fire escape they were installing...
...full practice sessions this week the Junior Varsity has concentrated on its offensive passing attack, a weakness which stood out in last week's 19 to 6 drubbing by BU. In that game the Terriers six times broke Crimson scoring threats with pass interceptions...
...such a bird ever get in FTC's nest? As Mason tells it, that is quite a story. The son of Illinois ex-Senator William E. Mason, he went to Washington in 1934 as a lawyer with NRA. When that job folded, he was so broke that for a time he lived on Fig Newtons. Then his good friend Billy Richardson, part owner of the Washington Senators, gave him a free box alongside the dugout at the ball park...
...response to two letters sent by Russell in the past week and a half, the William Morris Agency at Rockefeller Center, Allen's publicity men, finally broke the ice yesterday with the information that a thorough investigation is under way. Implying that they would just as soon hear nothing more from Russell for a while, the agency promised to take complete charge of the matter and notify him in about a week...