Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only as the Prestes passed through New York en route to Washington did anyone crack a joke at their expense. Fog had delayed their ship seven hours. In his official speech of welcome Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, notorious for being late on all occasions, wisecracked: "I concede to you. Sir, the championship which heretofore has been bestowed on me." Hearing the Tammanyites guffaw, President-elect Prestes laughed politely, though he does not speak English. In Brazil, where public greetings are taken seriously and must embody the flower of courtesy, such a "joke" would have been an insult and President...
Rumson, N. J., June 13 Princeton's crack polo team went to the fore in the Intercollegiate polo matches being held this week-end when Pennsylvania Military College went down before the rampant Tigers in the opening match of the tourney, 10 to 7 this afternoon. The match was played at Princeton as part of the Commencement entertainment but all the other matches will be held on the Country Club field here...
...from the legislature (which falls to any state college president) is considerably ameliorated in the case of California, for Governor Young was graduated in the class of 1892. Among other of California's celebrated sons and daughters: Cartoonist Rube Goldberg; Authors Charles Norris and Jack London; Humorist Sam Hellman; Crack U. S. Army Aviator James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle; Tennis Champion Helen Wills Moody; President Aurelia H. Reinhardt of Mills College (Oakland); Julius Klein, U. S. assistant secretary of commerce; Vice President Willis H. Booth of Guaranty Trust Co., onetime president of International Chamber of Commerce; President William Benson Storey...
...Manhattan's musty old Second Avenue Theatre last week was presented a Yiddish theatrical revival, The Wild Man. The plot deals with an aged and wealthy widower who marries a young adventuress. One by one his children are driven from or leave home until the neglected, crack-brained son murders his stepmother. But Jewish audiences, munching chocolates, were not as interested in the melodramatic antics of the family on the stage as they were in the family of Adlers -"the Barrymores of Jewry"-who were performing the piece. Gathered together for the first time on one stage, the cast...
...when a jockey swings outside so early in a race it shows he does not think much of the other horses. While Gallant Fox closed, Tannery was moving along the rail and soon these two with Alcibiades between them were running like a three-horse chariot team. Crack Brigade came on behind them. Alcibiades was the first to drop back; that left it up to Tannery, but Tannery could not hold the pace either. Gone Away and Gallant Knight were going strongest now, and the jockies on both of them were using the whip; Sande looked over his shoulder...