Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Liberty and later became a best-selling book. War Birds was supposedly the diary of an unknown U. S. aviator, but few literary wiseacres believed that Mr. Springs did nothing more than edit the manuscript. Mr. Springs has a private airport on his estate at Fort Mill, plays a crack game of tennis, lists on his letterhead some 25 goods & services-including cotton sheets, airplane transportation, short stories-which he will supply...
...done was to organize, if possible, a joint rebuke to Poland by the three Great Powers now dominating the League. France, Britain and Italy. Overnight M. Barthou sought the co-operation of Sir John and Baron Aloisi. The Frenchman's role was exquisitely delicate, for should he himself crack down too hard on Colonel Beck, Poland might take such offense as to cast her vote in the League Council against admitting Russia, and the Council can act only by unanimity. In Warsaw, meanwhile, streets had been beflagged as if in celebration of a military victory and the Pilsudski Press...
...resign from the code authority because he shared in the Fisher order. Recruiting hundreds of allies the 62 defiant companies then asked the code authority to abolish price-fixing. Last week after the Memphis pow-wow their petition was flatly denied. NRA Deputy Administrator E. A. Selfridge threatened to crack down, declaring that the Department of Justice was ready to start suits against each & every one of the 62 dissenters...
...their time play many parts. Senator Carter Glass "in a class by himself," is cast as hero. Professor Moley plays clown. General Hugh Johnson undertakes a comic Falstaffian role, "chief name caller" of the Administration, roaring about "tom-tom beaters," "witch dancers," "hobgoblin seers," "chiselers," "social Neanderthalers," threatening to "crack down" while NRA goes to pieces under him. Professor Tugwell is the chief antagonist, marshal of the forces seeking a socialistic state. He is a respected enemy until, during the farce of the Wirt investigation, he denies his "anti-American doctrines," makes himself a laughing stock. Above the tumult...
Ably abetted by John Murray Anderson and no less than seven costume designers, Albert Johnson has set the show in superb fashion. The first crack out of the Johnson paint box is a charming mechanical clock revolving in centre stage. Two automata strike at bells while other mummers, masked and mounted on wooden disks like toy soldiers, circle past. With this pantomime of musical revue, Life Begins at 8:40 gets off to a good start at about...