Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honor of leading the Fleet into New York Harbor and to its Hudson River anchorage fell to the President, whose ship was now saluted by roaring power dives from 15 crack planes of the Fleet. But all naval eyes were still on the Indianapolis' fore truck. By tradition one more thing was necessary to complete the ceremony. Three little flags broke out spelling Y W X, Yoke William Xray, the Navy's "Well Done" signal. That meant the President was pleased...
...Hamden, Conn., circus performance, Alda May Cole, 19, stood balancing three lighted candles on her head in the centre ring. Across from her, Marksman Lou Morphy lifted his gun. Crack, crack, crack, out went the candles, one, two. three. Alda May Cole bowed to the applause, walked steadily out of the tent, collapsed in the passageway. Slug No. 1 had split as it shot out of the gun. Half of it had snuffed out candle No. i. The other half plunked into Alda May Cole's face, an eighth of an inch from her right...
Vanderbilt, one of the Yale Colleges, will furnish the opposition for the Angler oarsmen in the races which will be run off at Derby, Connecticut; and according to all reports, they are going to prove a tough nut to crack. As champions of the Elis, they cleaned up everything in their regatta held several days...
While Attorney General Cummings was not "disposed to challenge" the collapse of his prize case, he could not restrain a political instinct to take one parting crack at Mr. Mellon. Ignoring the fact that he had carried the tax charges into the headlines first, Mr. Cummings declared: "Very few people, I imagine, were seriously misled by Mr. Mellon's statements, which were evidently timed so as to be current while the grand jury had his case under consideration. There is no reason, however, to believe that these highly improper assertions affected the result. . . . The simple truth is that [Mellon...
...Francisco is traditionally a good newspaperman's town. Many a crack newshawk got his start there. Many another wishes he might work there. Last week in city rooms all over the land, newsmen kept one eye cocked on San Francisco. A big story was about to break. Not a line had appeared in the news columns of the daily Press, but practically every editor, reporter and desk man knew about it. It was to be the first test of the potency of the American Newspaper Guild. The villain of the story was William Randolph Hearst...