Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasion for this slashing of precedent and snapping of party lines was Mr. Tilson's amendment to the Navy appropriation bill, which asked for $450,000 to begin construction of three cruisers. President Coolidge had said in his budget message and many times since that he would brook no immediate appropriations for cruiser building. "Big Navy" men in the House were confident of defying him; potent and regular Republican leaders were backing them. The vote was taken last week; Mr. Tilson's amendment was rejected, 183 to 161. Who had saved the President...
...Hackensack meadows they come the young visitors. The square is filled with them. Orange and Black mingles with sober crimson in the store windows. Spectators speculate; trefoil frailties and the Yard gendarmes reminisce quite audibly. One might call it Indian summer--but the House of Hanover could not brook that...
...alarm clock clamored impatiently. The President leapt from his bed. It was 5 a. m. With his faithful guide Ormond Doty and Secret Service men, he drove 35 miles to Essex county, hiked through rugged woods to Ausable River. By 7 a. m., his boots were in the brook, his bait was on the hook. (In Franklin county, where White Pine Camp is, the game laws decree that trout fishing shall cease on Sept. 1, but in Essex county the deadline is Sept...
...William Alexander Kinglake, famed British 19th century explorer lusciously described Damascus in his Eothen: "Close along on the Abanah river's edge through seven sweet miles of rustling boughs and superb shade, the city spreads her whole length as a man falls flat, face forward, in the brook that he may drink and drink again; so Damascus, thirsty forever, lies down with her lips to the stream and clings to its rustling waters." Tradition ascribes to Damascus the title "oldest city in the world...
Boots in the brook, bait on the hook...