Word: brook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain type of successful small boy there is observed a spirit that cannot brook the presence of a tall tree in front or back yard until he has shinned to its topmost crotch. Among grown men, the same intolerance is manifest where parties of them scramble for the pinnacles of high mountains...
...Internationalized Tangier commands the Strait of Gibraltar. This Strait is at present dominated by Britain at "the Rock" (Gibraltar), and it is a fixed tenet of British policy to brook no rivals. The "menace" referred to by Mr. Chamberlain referred to reports that Abd-el-Krim was preparing to attack the Tangier zone...
...Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi 5. Danse Macabre, Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens 6. The Music Box Liadov 7. Air, "Non piu andrai" from "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Charles H. Bennett, Baritone 8. The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner 9. Rhapsody, "Espana" Chabrier 10. "Kogawa no Hotori ni," "By the Brook" Seigi Abe 11. Waltz, "Roses from the South" Strauss
...Washington crossing the Delaware as it appeared on the front cover. Yet so little did it impress them when they went about the work of confiscation that many inoffensive copies of the authentic Digest were carted to the police station. The other picture which the blue coats couldn't brook, they branded obscene. Of course it would be too much to expect honest and upright police commissioners to recognize the famous picture by Manet that has long hung in the Luxembourg. There may be some criticism of the Lampoon's taste in running these particular pictures. But everybody except...
...castanets, he declares grandiloquently that only King Alphonso or Primo de Rivera may match rapiers with him. What could be more audacious than a novelist laying aside a vitriolic pen to challenge a crowned head of Europe? It is not likely that the pride of a Hapsburg-Bourbon will brook such an affront. Yet, even in this case, Ibanez has the long odds. He has looked over the King's record as a duelist and finds it poor. Besides, and the truth of this charge particularly infuriates the royalists, the King's manner of living in the last few years...