Word: brooked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose eyes are seldom shut, has a more-than-esthetic interest in Miss Munsel. Eight years ago, listening at his radio one afternoon to the Met Auditions of the Air, he heard 17-year-old Patrice singing coloratura arpeggios in a voice as full of rills as a country brook, and lustily topping off high Fs. It was not the greatest voice he had ever heard, but coloraturas were scarce, particularly with Lily Pons, the Met's coloratura queen, making herself scarcer on wartime tours. Hurok went to see Patrice, and liked what he saw-a confident, warm-eyed...
...Indian summer may come yet, Brook added, but it will have to put in an appearance soon. Thanksgiving is the traditional deadline for Indian summers. This current prank of the elements lasted only two days, where a genuine Indian summer usually streches out over a week or more. Frosty nights are another characteristic of Indian summers...
GARDNER REA Brook Haven...
Buckley's conception of individualism is equally definite. He states it in a footnote: "I am committed to the classical doctrine that...regulation by a free competitive economy brings out not only maximum prosperity but maximum freedom." Buckley will brook absolutely no exceptions. Again, there are probably few Yale graduates who would go down the line with him on the pristine perfection of laissez-faire economics...
...Year of Our Lord 1718 an affluent London merchant who had been born in the American colonies received several visits from a Bostonian named Jeremiah Dummer about a struggling institution of higher learning in Say-brook, Connecticut called The Collegiate School. These visits, along with some very persuasive letters from another Bostonian named Increase Mather, succeeded in convincing the London merchant to give a substantial donation to the small school, which was promptly named Yale College in his honor. Today that college celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding...