Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mooching quietly about in those backwoods sections, he might have been a detective looking for moonshiners. But his quarry was far more elusive than that. He was looking for, and asking for, and prepared to pay for, the right to catch−brook trout...
...several hands before being bought by Mr. Bruce. He had such an unpleasant temper that starters almost barred him. This, perhaps as much as anything, led Mr. Bruce to try him at jumping. He was a success from the start and won the Maryland Grand National twice, the Meadow Brook Cup. the Maryland Hunt Cup and the Manor Cup. When he was first taken to England, Albert Ober rode him but, after three defeats, he asked to be relieved and Cullinan, a smart little Irish professional, was engaged. Last year's tragedy was a double one for Cullinan...
FOOTNOTE>*Drawn by Artist Paul Brown after studies from the life at Becher's Brook...
...Reverend Joseph Fort Newton, Rector of the Memorial Church of St. Paul, Over brook, Pennsylvania, will conduct the services at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
Like swimmers stealing a dip in a wayside brook the skaters discarded their shoes and superfluous clothing at the side of the pond. Spectators, including small boys and ladies with mischievous and predatory instincts, watched the practice, and occasionally carried off souvenirs in the form of a shoe or two. Sometimes the home trek for the Crimson sextet was a walk on skates for a couple of uncomfortable miles...