Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jokemakers from nearly every college in the country will crack their jokes in concert next month when the 15 members of the Association of College Comics of the East hold their annual convention in the building of the Lampoon on Saturday and Sunday, December...
...silk, a huddle of bobbing heads at the turn, one, two, pulling away, animated toys all; then the stretch, the crowd ris- ing, a tatoo of hoofs-F. A. Burton's Wise Counsellor first; second, Big Blaze; third, Sun Flag; fourth, Initiate; fifth, Epinard, limping, staggering. A quarter crack in his hoof, though bound that morning, had broken wide open; the pain had killed his spirit, made him lose for the fourth time. Lamed, he will race no more in the United States, said Trainer Leigh speaking for Owner Wertheimer...
...after the hard nuts; they're the ones you want to crack", was the advice of Mr. Arthur Beane '12, former graduate secretary of the Phillips Brooks House Association and present treasurer of the Graduate Advisory Committee, to the 81 collectors who assembled last night for dinner in the Phillips Brooks House to inaugurate the annual drive for funds...
...year-old horse, ill-fed, bony, windbroken, drawing a peddler's ramshackle cart, recognized the steed as Hawthorne, 12 years ago a champion two-year-old on Churchill Downs (Louisville), remembered that Hawthorne's mother was White Thorn, that White Thorn was grandmother of Epinard, crack French stallion now invading the U. S., deduced that old horse Hawthorne must be "Epinard's uncle...
...Lieut. Col. T. P. Melvill, a crack shot, a fine horseman, a skilled combination player...