Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reason: ill health. Since 1920, Dr. & Mrs. Greist have been "outside" only once, eleven years ago. Now, after a visit with relatives in California, a visit to Monticello, Ind. where Dr. Greist left a private hospital to go to Alaska, a visit with their only child David at Stony Brook (L. I.) School for Boys, the Greists are going to Europe, perhaps to Africa. That is where Dr. Greist wanted to go when he was graduated from Indiana University's School of Medicine 42 years ago. His mind was changed for him when he was ordained a Presbyterian minister...
...Washington. Before the Philippine Commonwealth was set up Commissioner Paredes, short, swart, swank, suave and banjo-eyed, was Speaker of the Insular House of Representatives and one of the Islands' leading politicians. When Manuel Quezon became the first Philippine President, he made it plain that he would brook no rivals in political power. The once-powerful Speakership was reduced to an office of no importance, and able Señor Paredes reluctantly accepted the job of Commissioner in Washington...
Golden Miller, winner in 1934, fell at the first fence. His jockey remounted but the Miller refused at Valentine's Brook and was withdrawn. Avenger, overnight favorite because the track was soft, fell at the first jump the second time round, broke his neck, had to be shot. At odds of 100-to-1, Lord Mildmay's stallion Davy Jones took the lead from the start and held it the second time around, over Becher's Brook, around the Canal Turn and past Valentine's Brook. There were two jumps left before the finish...
...Roaring Brook Farm Bradford...
...challenge there is a small box in which one's assent is to be given. Assent, indeed, but what of the man who does not approve? Either the Student Council believes such subversiveness impossible in a Harvard student, or else feels secure enough in the saddle so as to brook no opposition...