Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whipcracker? What did President Herbert Hoover do about all this? If Washington holds a whip hand over Havana (as most Latin Americans believe) surely now the whip would crack...
Chief eye-attraction is Armida, a sprightly maiden from Hollywood (General Crack, A Texas Moon), who capers through some heelful routines. Most
Plots to restore 17-year-old Archduke Otto to the Throne of Hungary and rumored meetings of Royalist conspirators in Hungarian castles have kept Hungarians in a romantic haze of Graustarkian intrigue for many months. Last week the crack of rifles in Budapest snapped citizens back to reality, and the problems of unemployment...
...Suiza motor and a top speed close to 160 m. p. h. Its instrument panel, with more than 30 dials including the invaluable "artificial horizon," offered practically every known aid to navigation. Yet even with weather conditions unusually good, with tail winds for much of the way, with such crack airmen as Coste & Bellonte at the controls, the Question Mark was forced to fly 4,100 mi. at an average speed of 109 m. p. h. Its flying time was 37 hr. 18 min. Neither plane could have carried a payload but shrewd Capt. Coste earned reputedly...
...father was an ardent National Guardsman and at one time among the four or five crack rifle shots in the entire country. When I was a child the house was filled with gold and silver medals as tokens of this prowess. And I, his son, am a fanatical pacifist and have never so much as fired a gun in my life...