Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold-brick." Democrats searched the editorial in vain for some reference to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Editor Smith was primed to talk about anything & everything connected with the 1932 campaign except the man his party nominated against his wishes at Chicago. The nearest he came to taking a direct crack at Nominee Roosevelt was: "We should stop talking about the Forgotten Man and about class distinctions. ... In no other country is there so little evidence of economic class hatred, so little encouragement to the Communist, the Fascist or the Junker. . . . Just now all of our people are in trouble...
...encountered a band of brigands, attacked them singlehanded. He mistook the sails of a windmill for threatening giants, charged into them to his own near- destruction. After him on muleback plodded a faithful red-faced squire, but with all his remonstrating he had no more control over his crack-brained sire than did the cinemen trying to film the proceedings. The red-faced squire was old George Robey, famed British comedian, playing the part of Sancho Panza, and the rickety don was the great Feeder Ivanovitch Chaliapin, brass-lunged old Russian basso...
Anticipating the usual early season walkover, the stadium crowd which gathers at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon to watch the Harvard-Buffalo clash will be chiefly interested in finding out what sort of a show the Crimson reserves can put on, and not in seeing the crack A team score at will on a weaker opponent...
...building that name, 8,000 good soldiers died and had to be replaced by recruits. The new recruits did not drill as well, and they had ideas of their own, no part of a good soldier's equipment. The 19th Route Army is still China's crack corps. Recently it was sent to deal with China's gravest military problem, the spread of Communist armies in the central provinces (TIME, Aug. 15 et ante...
Play began with Scotch (two-ball) foursomes. Paired with slim young George T. Dunlap Jr. against the crack British pair of long-driving John Stout and John Burke, champion of Ireland who signs his first name "Sean," Ouimet's putting helped his partner win four of the first five holes. The match was over at the 30th, with Ouimet & Dunlap 7 up. Captain Thomas Arthur ("Tony") Torrance of the British team and John De Forest, British Amateur champion, did very little better. They lost to Gus Moreland (in vited to join the U. S. team while he was winning...