Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With her Rolls-Royce engines throbbing sweetly, a "Flying British Foreign Office" lofted up from Croydon this week, swept off across the Channel. Aboard were crack Whitehall diplomats fluent in German, and Sir John Simon who was reported to have sighed: "I could talk with Hitler in French if he could talk French...
Everywhere in Berlin citizens, on General Goring's orders, left their doors unlocked. It was fun for Nazi squads to burst in and bawl: "Citizens, your window shows a crack of light! Darkness is the order! See you aren't caught again!" Most fun, however, was attending to the shop of Weber...
...test pilots are famed and few live long enough to get rich on their fat earnings. Fortnight ago Pilot Collins was asked to name offhand the crack U. S. test pilots. His list...
DEATH IN 4 LETTERS-Francis Beeding -Harper ($2). A fictionalized "Arms and the Men," with a crack journalist, a lady doctor, a huge red-bearded artist chasing and being chased across the Continent. Bright and fast, with some convincing touches of realism, considerable humor...
...tuck battle for the New England Junior 200-yard free style relay title that left the spectators in doubt as to who had won, the crack Freshman relay team met defeat by a small fraction of a second last night at the heads of the Greenwood Memorial Swimming Club at the Brookline Public Baths...