Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania Railroad's Columbus-to-Dayton stretch a section gang working near Selma, leaned on their tools one morning last week to watch the crack St. Louisana whip by on its way from Manhattan to St. Louis. As the flyer thundered past there was a tremendous gasp from the big, black K-4 locomotive, and from the cab belched strange clouds of steam. On toward nearby Cedarville it hissed, roared over the Main Street crossing with no warning blast, came to a wheezing stop at the town's westerly limits. But no human hand had thrown the brake...
Jane Toppan was a trained nurse from 1892 to 1901, reputed the best in Cambridge. Her specialty was poisoning. Her first attempt, upon a fellow nurse in Massachusetts General Hospital in 1886, was unsuccessful. Thereafter she seldom failed. Born Honora Kelly, daughter of a loony sot called "Kelly the Crack," she poisoned Captain & Mrs. Abner Toppan of Lowell, who had adopted her. She poisoned Mrs. Myra Connors, matron of Episcopal Theological School in 'Cambridge, in order...
...Roman Catholic order of Oblates of Mary Immaculate, founded the Missionary Communications Association, to keep missionary outposts of the Church in touch with the world. Its motto : Obviam Christo terra marique et in aera ("Toward Christ by land and sea and in the air"). Lately, Father Schulte, a crack pilot who wears his Roman collar under his flying togs, has been in northern Canada planning an aerial transport service for missionaries in the Arctic. In Churchill, Manitoba last week he learned that Bishop Armand Clabaut had received a radiogram from the Hudson's Bay Co., 1,200 miles north...
...became a crack golf, squash and tennis player. At St. Louis Country Day School, his headmaster remembers him as having "no froth, no social stirrings." At Yale, where he graduated in 1928, his social stirrings were inadequate to get him into a fraternity, but he did make the tennis team and the editorial staff of the News...
...course, kites for an emergency radio aerial, a shotgun and fishing tackle in case she piled up on a coral reef, enough food for 15 people for a month. But not all the gadgets in the world could save her if she smacked the water hard enough to crack her seagoing hull-or if she caught fire while dumping gasoline, as the Samoan Clipper, with Captain Musick and a crew of six, did last January off Samoa...