Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Item 1-A whiskey ad in TIME, showing two old gents, one with a nice string of brook trout and his hat neatly adorned with a bunch of bass bugs and bass flies which no self-respecting trout would even flip his tail...
Within a few hours all the world knew what this meant: Italy was determined to carry on her "war" with Abyssinia (TIME, Dec. 24, et seq.) and would brook no interference. Benito Mussolini wanted all Italy to understand that both France and Britain were backing him to the hilt...
...Alfred, Maine, the aunt of Gregory Brook, 7, told him that if he let his tooth be pulled and put it in a glass of water it would turn into a dime. He did so and the aunt substituted a dime. Gregory thereupon yanked out another tooth with a pair of pliers, put it in the glass, was working on a third when he was stopped...
Anniversary. It was in 1635 that John Winthrop the Younger, son of Massachusetts' second Governor, returned from a visit to England as the first Governor of Connecticut, with a commission from Lords Saye and Brook empowering him to develop the production of salt, iron, glass, potash, tar, black lead, saltpetre, medicines, copper, alum...
...hawk's shadow rippled across the tops of the trees and blotted the bars of the sun on the brook. It flickered for a second on the little girl's bare feet and was gone. And again it swerved over and disappeared. Back in the meadow, something swooped down and the thin, quivering squeal of a field mouse hung in the hot, stagnant air and was stifled...