Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...report was late because State Administrator McDonough had been honeymooning. Day later his report was in Washington and Maine had been granted $598,000 for November relief. But G. O. Partisans had scored a (continued on p. 16) sufficiently important point to cause Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins to crack back...
...Majesty was-and strongly implying that the Jugoslav Government had friendly ties with Nazi Berlin. In ruthless, effective Balkan fashion the police of Belgrade proceeded to make Alexander's funeral safe. Over 6,500 suspects and near-suspects were thrown into jail. Lest someone try to take a crack at General Goring every German immigrant in the capital was put under house arrest. Despite incessant rains the carrying of umbrellas was barred. Ditto walking sticks and bouquets of flowers...
...Like most "Yankee publications" you can't resist the temptation to have your dirty, untruthful dig at Southerners, but this time you are not content to censure and abuse the living, you must take a dirty crack at the dead. The sentences to which I refer [TIME, Oct. 1] read in this manner: ''As unique as its cooking is the South's propensity for sending strange characters as its ambassadors to the U. S. Senate. Because of the political degeneracy of the one-party system, the incompetence of the Deep South's voters...
...Some 50 crack reporters, sob-sisters, cameramen, ranging from the august New York Times to the Polish Everybody's Record jammed the press tables in Luzerne County Courthouse at Wilkes-Barre. Most conspicuous of all was the hulking, white-crowned figure of Author Dreiser. Rip-snorting Publisher Julius David Stern, who has been trying to transform the ancient New York Post into a wild-&-woolly liberal sheet, had hired Dreiser to cover the trial for the Post, the Philadelphia Record, and a syndicate string. Author Dreiser was also covering for Mystery Magazine...
Kentucky-born 50 years ago "Missy" Meloney at 15 worked on the Washington Post, at 16 helped cover a Republican National Convention for the New York World. Like many a crack newshawk she served her hitch on the rowdy Denver Post, and was the first woman reporter ever admitted to the U. S. Senate Press Gallery. She was editor of Delineator in 1926 when her good friends the Reids invited her to take charge of the Herald Tribune magazine. The magazine is said to be a money-loser at present, but beyond doubt it pulls substantial circulation. Like Helen Reid...