Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year-old girl told her mother, Mrs. Raymond Gunn, about this awful secret and advised her to be careful. Mrs. Gunn, who often had to go five times to her daughter's room to say goodnight, who had often had to quiet a mighty fear by leaving a crack in the door to the lighted hall, listened carefully. Then she said: "You come with me. I'm going to teach you a lesson." She put her small daughter in a closet, closed the door, locked it, listened to her daughter's screams and walked away...
Babies A La Carte. One of those stage wills decrees the fortune shall go to that one of two cousins, both ardent birth control advocates, who bears the first baby. Both ladies become flustered, flutter through stereotyped agonies, while the rest of the cast flourish jests too frayed to crack...
...burrowed further into the mountain. Commanding the chamber was a monster urn up which the curious Bedouin clambered to peer in. Within?yes, the veritable heaps of gems and gold of Ali Baba's "Open, Sesame" story. Knotting a clutch of treasure in his burnoose, he next chipped a crack in his prison's rose-red sandstone wall, widening it to a passage which brought him out high on the slope above the valley of Petra. . . . The interest of treasure-hunters in his fabulous story was scarcely greater than that of archaeologists. Petra is a historical mystery...
Almost miraculously Mr. O'Higgins survived for some hours. "Forgive them all!" were his first, gasping words to those who came running at the crack of rifles. "I forgive them," he repeated, "I am dying at peace with my enemies. . . . Someone bring paper. I must make my will...
...moments before the St. Louis train left the Pennsylvania station in Manhattan last week with Mrs. Evangeline L. Lindbergh aboard, a member of her party stepped to the rear of the train pulled a green velvet covering from an illuminated emblem there, and revealed that that "crack" train of St. Louis, after Aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh's own airplane...