Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over his head, tossed his 217 pounds through the ropes. After 22 min. 49 sec. of wrestling, Zaikin refused to continue. Why? asked the referee. Zbyszko, Zaikin explained, had been secretly sticking his large forefinger into his, Zaikin's, ear-a method of attack which he could ill brook, since the ear had recently been operated on. The crowd, eager to believe itself cheated, booed. The referee gave the decision to Zbyszko...
Captain F. B. Hayne '26 in an overtime period, after almost being floored by his opponent, received the referee's decision over Sesit of Columbia. Arida of Columbia and Milton Brook '25 had a close match in which each continually broke out of difficult holds before the Columbia man finally...
...with another lady. Laca calls on the stepmother. He would marry the girl himself, he says, but damme, he cannot stomach the child. Whereupon the stepmother, on a black winter's night, drugs Jenufa, steals out hugger-mugger into the dark and drowns the bastard in an icy brook. On the day of the marriage feast, the ice thaws, peasants discover a disfigured bundle in the sedge. Step-mother is led off to jail, but iron bars make no cage for her. Her daughter is an Honest Woman...
Jenufa's stepmother, stealing hugger-mugger to the brook...
...since 1914 and the Meadow Brook Magpies had junior champions won the open title as well...