Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began when he was 13. At 16 he was a star player on the famed Meadow Brook Club's championship team. He also boxed and swam, played tennis, hockey, football and golf. At St. Paul's School he was president of his class. He left school at 17 to join World War I's famed Lafayette Escadrille. He won the Croix de Guerre, was shot down and captured, escaped by jumping from a moving train, walked for eight nights till he reached Switzerland...
...main galleries of the Brooklyn Museum were all but concealed by Walkowitz in oil, watercolors, pen & ink, photography, stone and clay. There was Walkowitz in practically every artistic style known to history, Walkowitz by such top-flight U.S. artists ,and sculptors as Wayman Adams, Alexander Brook, Guy Pene Du Bois, Gifford Beal, Ernest Fiene, William Gropper, Joe Jones...
Caution and Carroll. The founder brothers, Daniel and Alexander, were born of poor farmers from the Scottish island of Arran.* Devout Protestants, fervent educators, they were also canny as brook trout. Their first books, cautiously selected for their long-term moral, educational and financial value, included such titles as Elements of the Gospel Harmony, A Guide to the Unprotected in Matters of Property and Income ("by a Banker's Daughter"), Differential Calculus, History of the Book of Common Prayer (of which a revised edition is still on Macmillan's list today...
Affinities. In Bound Brook, N.J., Barbara Jane Brilliant was engaged to Lieut. Saul Sunshine. In Woodland, Calif., Mrs. John Snowball paid $5,500 for a house to Bartholomew Blizzard...
...house of De Coppet & Doremus, decided to subsidize a group of four players who would make quartet playing their exclusive and full-time occupation. De Coppet, a fanatical music lover, gathered his quartet to practice in peace on his Swiss estate which he called Villa Flonzaley, after a small brook that flowed through the grounds. When they came out of hiding as the Flonzaley Quartet, the musical world soon found their playing amazing...