Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Toots bellowed to Leonard Lyons. "Through booze I met two Chief Justices, 50 world champs, six Presidents and DiMaggio and Babe Ruth." Gregarious Toots hadn't had a belt for an astonishing nine months, ever since he took a dive on a Washington hotel floor last March and broke his hip. "I vowed not to take a drink until I could stand on my own two feet," Toots graveled in his Manhattan diner. But now that he can stand, he's making up for all the lost weekends he lost. "I missed about 30 cases in those nine...
When Fiok refused to lose his cool during the trial's first three weeks, the cons armed themselves with homemade zip guns, broke out of the county jail during the weekend, kidnaped a policeman, and wounded a guard. Recaptured within an hour, they brazenly demanded a mistrial on the ground of "prejudicial publicity." When that failed, Mayberry scorned the trial as "comic opera," called the prosecutor "Gilbert" and the judge "Sullivan." "If I can't get my rights legally," Langnes shouted at the judge, "I'll have to blow your head off. You understand that, punk...
...Evangelist Billy Graham, Playboy Hugh Hefner and the psychedelic professor, Timothy Leary. Cosmopolitan advised readers suffering from "holiday neurosis" to consult a psychiatrist for Christmas. The lead piece in the Reader's Digest concerned a housewife so exhausted by her Christmas chores that she finally broke down alongside her dishwasher: "Tears filled my eyes. Suddenly, it all seemed too much: the dirty dishes, the too-tight schedule. Christmas didn't seem worth...
...live like one. For one thing, she was always too homesick and broke. About two-thirds of her $400 weekly salary went to taxes, to her manager and to her family (John, two half brothers, a half sister, as well as her mother and stepfather). Much of what she had left she spent on phone calls back to Britain. Her half brother Donald still tells how he used to kick the family Welsh corgi, Humpty, to make him bark a transatlantic hello...
...Harrison suddenly dried up. He couldn't remember his next line, and the audience held its breath-until Julie grabbed hands and pulled them back to their feet. "Let's take a little bow, boys," she chirped. They did-and Harrison picked up his line. The house broke up and then just relaxed and capitulated to what was to become the longest-running musical in Broadway history-2,717 performances...