Word: cracked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...risky for an Asiatic to frustrate sahibs. The Sultan of Johore soon discovered reports were reaching London that he was making an issue of marrying Miss Hill, had engaged in a "serious quarrel" with the Governor of Straits Settlements. Afraid the British Government might crack down, His Highness suddenly made amends by packing Miss Hill and her mother off to England. But he attended their sailing party and stood on the dock while his guests waved farewell to him (see cut). Last week in London, as mother & daughter landed, the Sultan's long-time legal adviser. Roland Braddell, swarthy...
...Ph.D. To date he has built no working model of his design. Said he: "There is no reason to build a working model. Any radio man in the country could do it easily. There is nothing to test because the only way to test it is to crack up a ship...
...Terror of Tiny Town (Jed Buell). "If this economy drive keeps on, we'll end up using midgets for actors." To hefty, thrifty Movie Producer Jed Buell this crack of a subordinate was intended as a reproof. Instead it gave him an idea. Soon he was collecting all the midgets he could reach through agencies, advertisements, radio broadcasts ("big salaries for little people"). They drifted in by twos and threes. From Hawaii came a troupe of 14. At length he had 60 of them, averaging three-feet-eight in height, about 70 Ibs., ranging in age from...
...Everywhere political wiseacres interpreted Franklin Roosevelt's failure to crack down on "naughty" Senators Adams and McCarran-right after the triumph of "naughty" Senator Van Nuys in Indiana [see p. 11]-as "the end of the Roosevelt Party Purge...
...south, completely undefended Canton reeked with gore and horror as the Japanese, day after day, bombed the vast metropolis from which not so much as a rusty Chinese musket cracked against them last week. Nauseated newshawks tied handkerchiefs soaked in deodorants across their faces as they prowled about Canton streets strewn with decomposing Chinese corpses. The few available surgeons operated night and day in improvised hospitals. But Chinese morale did not crack. Between every raid, sweating Cantonese hustled through into the interior of China by rail and truck the precious munitions landed from British Hong Kong 78 miles down...