Word: crackings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bruins to compensate Bailey, beyond the $6,700 which he received from a benefit game in Boston. The League governors compromised by ordering another benefit game, between the Toronto club and an all-star team made up of players from the other clubs. 2) Eddie Shore, Boston's crack defense man who was suspended for spilling Bailey, returned to the ice against the Rangers in Manhattan. His team had slipped into last place largely because of his absence. Heartened by sympathetic cheers from a gallery which nearly always booed him, Shore recovered his nerve, played a lusty game...
Abruptly into this nostalgic atmosphere strode a fine black buck from Martinique, Deputy Joseph Samuel Lagrosillière, brandishing like a club a rolled up copy of La Liberté which had cast upon him Stavisky innuendoes. Crack! and Crack! the Negro Deputy struck twice in the face with La Liberté one of its editorial writers. Deputy Desire Ferry. Smack!-Writer Ferry retorted with a punch to the jaw which sent Martinique's Lagrosillière reeling groggily, then shouted at him, "I demand satisfaction by arms...
...Supreme Court in Madrid last week went the case of five U. S. citizens, one a woman, who were jailed in Palma, Mallorca, last June for hitting and insulting a member of Spain's crack police, the Guardia Civil (TIME, July 24). All five had been acquitted last October by a military court. But custom required a military auditor to review and confirm such a verdict. It happened that the auditor was a monarchist and not above embarrassing the Republican government's diplomatic relations with the U. S. He appealed the case to the Supreme Court, irascibly demanding...
BOMBAY MAIL-Lawrence G. Blochman -Little, Brown ($2). Death and fast action take place on the crack Trans-Indian Express. First victim is the Governor of Bengal, second the Maharaja of Zunjore. Inspector Prike, sorting suspects, encounters rubies, secretaries, cobras, priests, spies. Village scenes of India, butterflies, toxicologist and acrobat flit past before the inspector brings conclusion to a crime that beat the book to the Screen...
...organized the Air Line Pilots Association is a big, fiery six-footer named David Louis Behncke. He was born on a Wisconsin farm. During the War he was a crack bomber and machine gunner. Today he holds every possible military and civilian pilot's license, has some 8,324 hr. on his log with never a serious crackup. For five years he flew the mail west out of Chicago for United Air Lines. Two years ago Pilot Behncke whipped the pilots' union together from the ranks of the ineffectual National...