Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanest of tricks is to tell a wealthy woman that the best way to clean her Oriental pearls is to swish them through boiling water. As the pearls heat they will lose their moonbeam lustre, may crack and the wealthy lady will grow frantic. Yet last week all Japan honored a short, stocky, crinkly-faced old man who had rolled up his kimono sleeves, seized a blunt spade and vigorously shoveled into a fiery furnace 720,000 of his best pearls. Within three minutes they turned to flaky ashes (crystallized lime...
...against Harvard. However, the Crimson players learned a good lesson in the evils of overconfidence last year, and there is little probability that they will suffer from the same malady this year. The situation comes down to the point that while Dartmouth has a good team, Harvard possesses a crack eleven with a powerful offensive, and the reserves which formed Casey's chief problem earlier in the season have developed rapidly...
...Little World Series against the Minneapolis Millers, American Association pennant winners. Another home run now by Baseman Owen, in the Millers' home park, would put the Bears ahead, give them the series, four games to two. Owen watched one ball go by, drew back for the second. Crack! Lame Woody Jenson watched the ball sail high above the right field fence, hobbled home. A boy who had scrambled down from the fence when the ball came his way watched it pass far overhead, clear the street outside, bang against a wall. By the time he recovered it Owen...
...detachment swooped down on a group of meanly-armed youths defending the fortified city of Lwow, sabered to death all but a handful. Pilot Cooper persuaded Polish authorities to let him recruit a squadron of War-trained pilots still loafing in Paris cafes. Back to Warsaw he took ten crack flyers. Major Cedric E. Fauntleroy had been chief test and ordnance pilot of the A. E. F., later flew with Rickenbacker's famed "Hat in the Ring Squadron." Captain Edward C. Corsi had been a chasse pilot for France. Several had served with Britain's Royal Flying Corps...
...held up one finger. After throwing two balls. Pitcher Root got over another strike. This time the players in the Cubs' dugout peered and chuckled. Still cocky, Ruth held up two fingers. The next pitch broke over the corner of the plate. Ruth swung at it. There was a crack. Centerfielder Johnny Moore started to run; then he stood still and watched the ball, a dwindling white spot against the blue sky, clear the ware fence and drop 436 ft. from the plate, one of the longest homeruns on record. Babe Ruth shambled slowly around the bases, shaking...