Word: cracking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Young Primo has a tiny black mustache, is a Lieutenant in the Hussars, and plays so keen a game of polo that he was teamed, last month at Santander, with the only reigning monarch who is a crack poloist: His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII, King of Spain...
...left his high qualities in escrow with Charles Murphy [oldtime Tammany Boss] when he went to Albany and there made a Tammany record on the saloon, the gambler and the prostitute. "No Klansman in a boob legislature, cringing before a Kleagle or a Wizard, was more subservient to the crack of the whip than was Al Smith-ambitious and effective and smart as chain lightning-in the Legislature when it came to a vote to protect the saloon, to shield the tout and to help the scarlet woman of Babylon, whose tolls in those years always clinked regularly...
Warming Up. Paramount, too, has gone into the talkie business. Nobody talks in Warming Up; but the ill-timed crack of a bat against a baseball, the ear-splitting yawp of the crowd, the squawk of an offstage soprano are in the air, now and then. The story purports to tell how the Yankees won the World Series when a bush-league pitcher (Richard Dix) peered into the grandstand, saw his girl (Jean Arthur) signal that she would marry him. Then he fanned the opposition, including his dastardly rival. So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed...
Trans-Atlantic hero worshippers divided their attention between two crack pilots, George Haldeman, who took Ruth Elder almost to Europe, and William S. Brock, who flew almost around the world. Both pilots flew Bellancas...
UNDERWORLD RACKET THE DRAG NET (George Bancroft and Evelyn Brent), LADIES OF THE MOB (Clara Bow and Richard Arlen). These two cinemae were written by Oliver H. P. Garrett, onetime crack reporter of the New York World...