Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Girls Go Back Home (Patsy Ruth Miller, Clive Brook). They probably do not. But this one did. She was not more than 20 minutes on her way when the handsome youth appeared down the aisle of the train to make her succeeding years rather less lonely. She had met him when he was an actor in a vagrant troupe of hams. She followed him to Manhattan and made the acquaintance of a few hard facts. All this makes comparatively commendable entertainment...
...when faculty existence could be negatived by the vote of those who would not brook certain faculty legislation is a part of medieval, not modern history. Yet the day of rapport between undergraduate and faculty is apparently more a part of modern history than many perennial pessimists would care to admit...
...sooner has the gay countess moved the sympathies of some, the antipathies of others--and herself from Ellis Island than that rather noisy and erstwhile citizen of Philadelphia, Smedley Butler, returns to the printed page. His morals are far above those of the countess. She could not brook a lie; he cannot--brook a drink. And when, with courtesy and the savoir faire of the "old school" a gentleman and colonel serves cocktails at a dinner party in his honor, Smedley blushes and rushes to the duty of having him reprimanded by the higher powers. All this...
...night watchman, who had been discharged, had continued secretly at his conscientious watch and extracted the $2 nightly as his proper wage. Shortly thereafter Mr. Patterson got control of a small register manufactory in Dayton, initiated intelligent salesmanship into U. S. business created many scientific management practices. He could brook no inter-organization authority competing with his own. When a man grew indispensable to N. C. R. Mr. Patterson fired him. Many present high business executives were trained in his N. C. R. school for salesmen: President Henry Theobald of the Toledo Scale Co., President Jacob Oswald of the Rotospeed...
...suggested that Bob Lincoln's attentions to Bessie Hale heaped fuel upon Booth's feeling against Lincoln Sr. Rather the reverse: that the son of Lincoln was the rival Booth could least brook. Such a suggestion might not be far-fetched in view of Booth's capacity for insensate passion, but it would be cruel now, and futile, to dig sorrow afresh from its burial under the years...