Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boss of Nebraska, and a fine delegation from Congress, including Col. Edward Halsey, pompous but popular secretary of the Senate, and Senators Tydings, Dieterich, Walsh, Barkley, Radcliffe, Copeland, Duffy, Gerry. The only political outsider present was Minnesota's Senator Henrik Shipstead who, though a Farmer-Laborite, is a crack duck hunter...
Eighteen-year-old Chauffeur Stoner, a consumer of cocaine sandwiches, egged on by his neurotic 38-year-old mistress, Mrs. Francis Mawson Rattenbury, murdered her 67-year-old husband whom she had always called by the pet name "Rats." So harshly did English public opinion crack down on Mistress Rattenbury that she soon committed suicide while 300,000 English signatures piled up on a mercy petition for young Stooge Stoner who had been sentenced to hang. An appeal by Stoner's lawyers was dismissed by the Lord Chief Justice as "a mere waste of time." The Lords of Appeal...
...treetops, fated to starve if not to drown. Four presumably crazed Chinese caught near Hankow attempting to breach a dike were instantly shot. Seeping waters invaded even the sacrosanct property of Standard Oil and the Japanese Concession, and a wall of British-American Tobacco Co. fell like the crack of doom. Said the U. S. chief engineer of the Yangtze River Conservation Commission, Col. G. C. Strobe: "The Chang-kung Dike cannot stand for more than another...
...that time, almost exactly parallel with Rembrandt's career, The Netherlands was entering its "Golden Age" under the able stadtholder. Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau. And Amsterdam was the golden city of the Dutch. Their armies were the crack fighting force of Europe. Their sea captains were preparing to smash Spain, rival Britain. All about him Rem brandt saw a young nation of tradesmen, sailors and soldiers, the litter of trophies brought home from the Orient...
Front Page Woman (Warner). Ellen Garfield (Bette Davis), crack reporter of the Star, scoops her fiance Curt Devlin (George Brent), crack reporter of the Express, on the murder of a theatrical producer. Thereafter, the two engage in a good-humored but energetic rivalry. Curt Devlin first gets an advantage by identifying the mystery woman in the case from the perfume on the dead man's coat. Then Ellen Garfield catches up by finding the woman's whereabouts by means of a laundry mark. Finally their efforts to outwit each other lead to a sequence in which, before...