Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the new order came in for a sound drubbing at the hands of the potent Macon Telegraph (by reputation the best-edited paper in Georgia). In a signed front-page editorial headed "Crack the Head of This Newest Nasty Thing," able Editor William Thomas Anderson declared...
...every sergeant knows, a year is net much time to make a soldier. Fortnight ago, just as the French Army was preparing for its annual autumn maneuvers, Minister Maginot announced elaborate and expensive plans for a completely "motorized" force. The French press which always barks obediently when politicians crack the whip took up the chorus. Loudest was the semi-official Temps...
Married. Edward William Mahan, 38, famed Harvard footballer, crack halfback during three years (1914 to 1916) when Harvard lost only one game (to Cornell, 19-15), onetime head coach of Harvard baseball, for the past three years an employe of Manhattan bankers and brokers; and Beryl Boardman of Natick, Mass., his friend since childhood; at the rectory of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan...
...features of General Manager Cliff Henderson's program went far to heighten public interest: the engagement of European crack airmen for an acrobatic "Olym-piad"; the revival of free-for-all speed racing in the Thompson Trophy Race. The latter event promised to resolve into a battle between Travelair Mystery S's, flown by Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks and Lieut. Jimmy H. Doolittle, and the Marine Corps entry, a special Curtiss Hawk with Conqueror motor, piloted by Capt. Arthur H. Page, winner of the Curtiss Marine Trophy Race...
...stunters, France's Marcel Doret was conceded the most thrilling performance of the opening days, with his loops that nearly cut the grass. Even more spectacular than the solo events were the tricks of the Navy's High Hat and Red Ripper squadrons from the Lexington; the Army's crack First Pursuit Squadron from Self ridge Field; and the Quantico Marines. Most novel stunt: three Navy Boeings, wing to wing, flopping over as one plane in a "formation barrel-roll...