Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then Governor Talmadge did something he had not dared do before-took a personal crack at President Roosevelt. His cracker...
Well aware that Dr. Noble in his time had observed countless thousands of frogs, O'Reilly rushed back to his office, returned to the Museum with his paper's crack photographer, William Zerbe.* While Zerbe took pictures of the albino frog, O'Reilly listened more carefully to Dr. Noble's explanation of the prodigy than he did to the scientist's indulgent prediction that the public would find the creature of little interest...
...Adam Beck, "father of Hydro." As early as 1888 Mr. Lyon was editing a paper called the Labour Reformer. For 40 years he was with the Toronto Globe-as reporter, city editor, associate editor, finally director. During the War he went to the front with Canadian troops as a crack correspondent. Now 68, ruddy-cheeked, snowy-haired, blue-eyed, he speaks with a broad Scottish accent, is a stern prohibitionist...
...feeble tug. Replete with the Paramount Paris sower set, the Paramount Paris hotels, policemen and nightclubs, the plot alone has the virtue of making this an entertaining picture, Typical shots--a lame masked man peeking over window ledges. A gloved hand poking the muzzle of a gun through a crack in a door, a spurt of flame, a clutched hand, female screams . . . certainly not the equal of the immortal "Thin...
...Maple Leafs 2-to-1 when their young forward Regis Kelly tied the score two minutes before the end of the third period, made the winning goal in the overtime period that followed. When the uproar was all over, the Montreal Maroons, a clever, cautious team built around their crack defenseman, Lionel Conacher, had qualified to play the speedy, more experienced Toronto Maple Leafs for the Stanley...