Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...representatives had not forgotten, but there was undoubtedly a majority ready to rush through the amendment or anything else, if Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu should crack the whip. At last he issued from the Cabinet huddle, proposed a most unfamiliar name: "Constantin Saratzeanu...
June Moon. Ring W. Lardner and George S. Kaufman are the authors of this satire on the noisiest of all "rackets," music publishing. It is as funny as a fusion of such wits would lead one to expect. Mr. Lardner has even gone so far as to write several crack-brained chansons which no one will be able to whistle but which everyone will want to hear again. The negligible story tells of a boy (Norman Foster) who leaves Schenectady to write lyrics in Manhattan. His June Moon is a success and, having narrowly escaped marriage with a shapely extortionist...
Aiding the Committee of One Hundred in its welcome to the West Point Cadets in their visit to Cambridge Saturday morning, will be a crack platoon of the Massachusetts forces, it was announced, last night by C. M. Underhill '30, Chairman in charge of the reception to the Cadets...
...baseball championship.* One team was the Philadelphia Athletics, representing the American League. The other was the Chicago Cubs, representing the National League. As everyone knows, Mr. Wrigley is Cub owner. The millions of U. S. citizens who, through radio and newspaper, hung upon the flash of every ball, the crack of every bat, probably did not much concern themselves with the corporate aspects of the entertainment provided them. Nor, in justice to Mr. Wrigley, could it be said that his connection with baseball was sordidly commercial. The Chicago baseball franchise was no pearl of great price when Mr. Wrigley purchased...
...Crack...