Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...draws a big gallery. His delivery is marked by physical violence, his whole body vibrating, his pointed finger shooting skyward. His voice is loud and clear, with words coming out like bursts from a machine gun. He sprinkles exclamatory "Sirl's" throughout his text and makes homely words crack like a whip. His humor is cold, caustic, unsmiling. A speech by him is a highly emotional event for all concerned...
Died. Alfred Henry, 57, famed Indianapolis doctor; of heart disease; in Indianapolis. Onetime president of the National Tuberculosis Association, he was ranked as a crack lung diagnostician...
Last week the Scott legend began to crack None too sure what manner of man he was, professors at Ohio State University withdrew their names as his sponsors when he came there to lecture. And the New York Herald Tribune had the enterprise to conduct and publish an inquiry into Howard Scott's past, together with a somewhat toplofty editorial to assure Wall Street that the status quo was not in danger...
...indoor polo season at the Commonwealth armory Saturday night. One of the most exciting exhibitions the armory has witnessed in years, it was played neck and neck to the last going. For six chukkers the Crimson riders staved off the determined attacks of Clark, formerly on a crack Harvard team, Palmer, present Harvard coach, and Phillips, mainly through the consistent scoring or Captain F. S. Nicholas '33. Just as the timer's bell sounded the end of the game, W. C. McGuckin '34 smashed home, from the midst of a spirited scrimmage, the deadlocking score, making the final result...
Soprano Kappel sang the difficult music beautifully, enacted the crack-brained role as well as any nice person could. But people who heard the performance over the radio were fortunate not to see the plush picture-book queen that Contralto Karin Branzell made out of Klytemnestra, supposedly half-crazed by the sense of her guilt. Soprano Goeta Ljungberg looked foolish posturing in an elaborate white satin dress. Tenor Rudolf Laubenthal seemed more like a saintly Lohengrin than a man who had committed murder to get a throne. Baritone Friedrich Schorr was a dignified but middle-aged Orestes...