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Word: crackings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Times. Sending forth three crack correspondents, Turner Cat- ledge to the South, Russell B. Porter to the Midwest, and James A. Hagerty to New England, the New York Times gave their reports in a series of articles which virtually conceded all New England to the Republicans, all the South, along with Indiana, Iowa and Kansas to Roosevelt. Ohio and Pennsylvania left the Times men in a quandary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Now and November | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

Glory. Actress Hayes' "cute" period fused with her more mature phase in Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The Serpent of the Nile was her first regal impersonation. Notwithstanding Columnist Franklin Pierce Adams' crack that she was suffering from "fallen archness," Miss Hayes still maintains: "I felt that my tiny Cleopatra was just right. It seemed to me that Shaw meant her to be a gay young numbskull.'' It seemed that way to the theatre going public, too, for Caesar and Cleopatra had a long and prosperous run. The god Broadway was beginning to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Helen Millennial | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

When Mrs. Hoe took the family troubles to a sympathetic newspaperwoman, whose job it was to put the bee of budget-keeping in her readers' bonnets, she got good advice free, paid by not taking it. Then unsympathetic reality began to crack down. Dallas flunked out of high school, wasted a lot of time trying to win a $10,000-prize competition, settled unwillingly to a job as chauffeur to his best girl's father. Sythia's grandmother sacrificed part of her funeral money to divert the "career" into a more appropriate job in a beauty parlor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Budget Book | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...bottom would have dropped out of the market for steel shares. Had that happened the Securities & Exchange Commission would have descended on Morgan & Co. with severe reproaches. When Secretary Morgenthau suddenly ceased buying in quantity in the London silver market last week, there was no international SEC to crack down on him but silver men the world over had plenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Again, Silver | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

Four Crimson jumpers will journey to Lake Placid this vacation to compete with the crack ski teams from Dartmouth, New Hampshire, Cornell, Ottawa, St. Patricks, Toronto, McGill, Williams and Princeton colleges...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SKIERS WILL JUMP, RACE AT PLACID DURING THE VACATION | 12/20/1935 | See Source »

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