Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon cornered 50 Staters in a restaurant. When the management locked the doors, they picketed the establishment as ''unfair to Oregon." After an hour's siege proprietors and police prevailed upon the Staters to come out. Oregon huskies dumped them off a bridge into the icy brook to join some 150 of their fellows. But the insult to Oregon had not yet been washed off. Up Skinner's Butte the dripping invaders were driven to be set to painting the "O" yellow again. "Slide them down!" yelled an Oregon girl. Dipped in yellow paint, the Staters...
Drops of water trickling down a wooded hillside swell to a runnel, a rivulet, a brook, a creek, join the great feeder streams and then the long, smooth, thousand-mile slide of the Big River, widening to the Gulf. Down river cotton is king. Up north there is timber. "We built a hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi...
...Atlantic City, N. J., Headmaster Frank Ely Gaebelein of Stony Brook (L. I.) School for Boys told a Methodist Protestant conference that little more than 25% of 49,000,000 U. S. young people have ever been in a church. Recent questionnaires, he said, showed that 16,000 of 55,000 school children had never heard of the Ten Commandments; only 2,000 of 18,000 students could name four biblical prophets, only 6,000 the four gospels, only 8,000 any three of Christ's disciples. Headmaster Gaebelein's remedy: "Revive the family altar and the reading...
...Greentree Stable his mother inherited from his father, (William) Payne Whitney. Jock has interested Sonny in Technicolor, just as Sonny interested him in Pan American Airways. In 1932 Jock supported Sonny in an unsuccessful campaign for Congress on the Democratic ticket. Last week at Long Island's Meadow Brook Club, however, the Whitney twain split in a manner friendly but definite...
After rain had postponed the match three days, Old Westbury and Greentree rode out onto Meadow Brook's International Field with 6-goal Jock and 4-goal Sonny both playing Back. In the first two chukkers, Sonny succeeded remarkably well in holding back Greentree's Tommy Hitchcock, Pete Bostwick and Gerald Balding. Cousin Jock was less successful. In the third chukker Sonny suddenly cut in, took the ball away from Hitchcock, swung his mallet. Smack! The ball scooted between the goal posts for the only Whitney-made score of the match. By the end of the seventh chukker...