Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Mexico City, blue and cloudless since November, last week turned grey. Now & then a little rain fell, and the afternoon winds ceased to cloak the city with powdery dust from the fields outside. In many a village women got ready for the first family wash since the village brook dried up last fall. Men stuck out their tongues to taste the rain,'or stood watching it soak into the parched earth...
...After Jacob, grandson of Abraham, had wrestled all night with the angel at the brook Jabbok, the angel dubbed him Israel ("Prince of God"), "for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed." * Defenders forced down one plane the first day, a British-made Spitfire. Its youthful Egyptian pilot was overjoyed to find that he was not to be subjected to torture, which he had been told to expect...
...most brilliant newspaper publisher. His principal paper, the Daily Express (circ. 3,850,000), is the largest in the world. Brief, colorful, clear, the Express is also, technically, one of the best newspapers in the world. Its editorial opinions are no wiser or more enlightened than Beaver-brook's own: the paper is his mouthpiece...
...Though Lord Beaver-brook's opinions color much of the news in the Express, the paper also reports many events that contravene his editorial views. And in The Beaver's Evening Standard, Cartoonist David Low goes right on poking fun at The Beaver's ruggedly individualistic stand. But Lord Beaverbrook's strictures on the U.S. have convinced many a Briton that the Daily Express is consciously and consistently anti-American. Actually it is friendly toward the U.S., but hostile to much of its policy and actions. The total impression the Express gives is that what...
Handle. In Olcott, N.Y., a Mr. Ten Brook, who was christened in 1876 (the year of the Philadelphia Centennial) for one Judge Hodge (owner of the opera house, manufacturer of gargling oil and supporter of Samuel J. Tilden for President), gave his name as John Hodge Opera House Centennial Gargling Oil Samuel J. Tilden Ten Brook...