Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Habitual travelers on the Broadway Limited, "crack" Pennsylvania R. R. train between Chicago and Manhattan, nodded cheerily to Steward Lewis Davis when they entered the dining-car last week. Later they felt even cheerier when Steward Lewis Davis, dean of the Broadway Limited's dining-car staff, brought them a little surprise-a slice from the train's 25th anniversary cake. For last week, which marked the 25th year of operation of the New York Central's Twentieth Century, marked also the quarter century for the Broadway Limited. New York Central officials made an event of their...
...Come, come, my lad", I added. And we went to the side show. The fat lady immediately fascinated Oscar. "How does she get that way?", he punned. At which dirty crack I felled him with a right to the liver and three or four agreeable remarks. So he asked her. Her life story will appear under his name in the first interesting edition of the Alumni Bulletin. He has her picture done by some landscape artist of the gay seventies...
...tennis championships at St. Cloud, France, lasted a fortnight. As the finals approached, the temper of the crowd sizzled at fever heat, the umpires' decisions became erratic, the serves of William T. Tilden II of the U. S. hissed like rockets, and although his nerves were beginning to crack, it seemed inevitable that he would win the singles championship...
...convenience, perhaps, but invariably attended at one end of the run or other by George Joseph Warner, a gentleman of 63 who looks, in his bat tie and wing collar, precisely like a modest bank president seen through brown-smoked glasses. George Joseph Warner is the road's crack and senior porter. His section is always the "first...
...Crack Mounts Shipped...