Word: cra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gone on from the day when the English drew their long bows and upset the flower of French chivalry at Creey and Agincourt to the cra when American fight fans finally decided that Jack Dempsey was an underdog and deserved cheers instead of boos. The hearts of millions of women will beat a little faster today every time some back named Seymour or Harrison or Frank or Booth or whatever this generation's names are gain a yard or two. And Peabody and Pfister and MacKinney and Lee will be playing the roles of the villainous favorites, but they will...
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON;--The answer to the prayer of every poor sinner who ever said. "Oh, let's get the hell out of this mess!" is a south sea island. Be it the Napoleonic cra when the book "Swiss Family Robinson" was written or the Hitlerian cra when Hollywood put it on celluloid, the story still holds good. True, it creaks in sports. The more lurid parts of Wyss's work had to be soft-pedaled and even then the final script was bogged down with verbiage as thick as the tropical vegetation. But such vivid scenes as the hurricane...