Word: brooking
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...bill was introduced by Manhattan Republican Assemblyman John R. Brook at the request of the Metropolitan Opera and Carnegie Hall. It was none too soon to draw the line, said Brook. If the trend had been allowed to continue, he warned, "we might soon have found such fine institutions as St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Red Cross, Columbia University or the American Legion linked with diapers, liquors and fertilizers...
...idea seemed to be that Jânío was hell-bent to achieve a totally independent position halfway between the U.S. and the Communist bloc, and would brook no argument. Late in the week, he announced that Brazil might well vote both for Red China's admission to the United Nations and the Khrushchev plan to "reorganize" the U.N. into complete impotence. As for the rumbling all this aroused among some politicians and military men, Quadros vowed, "There are only two ways to block my course: to depose me or assassinate...
Looking more like two college kids on a date than anything else, John A. Ten Brook '61, president of Theatricals, and Miss Fonda chatted before the award was made. Ten Brook was telling for perhaps the fourth time that morning how he and two of his brothers had got three shoe-shines for the price...
During the presentation, Ten Brook read from a scroll, "The Hasty Pudding has always held womanhood and acting ability in high esteem..." Miss Fonda giggled
...made his way to Manhattan, and before long fell in with a group of young men who were all destined to become famous: Stuart Davis, Morris Kantor, Alexander Brook, Reginald Marsh and Walt Kuhn. It was a heady bunch to belong to, but Kuniyoshi's paintings were...