Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week George V., modest Imperator et Rex, felt stirring within him that urge toward pheasant shooting which in his youth caused him to become one of the crack bird-shots of the Empire. While the Prince of Wales spurred madly after foxes and Queen Mary occupied herself with vague housewifely duties at Buckingham Palace, King George set out for his annual visit to Elveden Hall in Suffolk, where some of the finest pheasant and partridge shooting in England...
down, Will crack no frying...
...roads. Into their hills they scuttled and out again, back and forth to the bookstore, the stadium, the lecture hall, the soda fountain, the library, the bootlegger's, the chapel. (I ¶ At Yale University, not as many entered Battell Chapel as formerly in the drowsy, blink-eyed crack of dawn (8 a. m.). Unmoved by years of protest against enforced religious observance, but compelled by the physical limitations of their spiritual edifice, the Yale authorities had decreed that only freshmen would be required to attend daily services hereafter. The three upper classes would alternate their weekdays of devotion...
...stains removed and, undeterred, continued on her course. Last week, returning home one evening from a meeting of Sunday School teachers, she arrived just as a thunderstorm burst. She lit a light and sat down to sew near a window. Above the roar of the thunder, there was the crack of a shot. Through the fractured window, a bullet sank into her heart. The assailant escaped...
...Utah, Ill., schooled in Galesburg and at Knox itself; his wide experience and acquaintance in business and literary circles; his "unusual sense of humor"; his information on and enthusiasm for College athletics; his conception of these last as all-round developers in preference to the development chiefly of crack teams and individuals; his religious nature...