Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tells of being summoned to the H Street house early one morning after a wild party at which a girl had been seriously injured by a crack on the head from a bottle. "I saw," writes Means, "President Harding leaning against the mantel. He looked bewildered." Means carried the unconscious girl to a hospital, where, the inference is, she died. This affair, says Means, led him to knowledge of what Jess Smith called "the President's philandering gaieties"?and the name of Nan Britton, a Marion, Ohio, girl, 30 years Harding's junior...
...gave it much prenatal publicity, the new New York, New Haven and Hartford's Boston-to-New York express made its first trip from Manhattan last week. Time: 4 hr. 45 min.-a quarter-hour less than it take the N. Y., N. H. & H.'s other crack Boston-New York trains, the Merchants and the Knickerbocker. More expensive by $1.30 than either of these two, a ride on the Yankee Clipper costs $12.26. The train, all Pullman, is in two sections of seven cars, each named after a famed oldtime clipper ship. To suggest...
Last year in the meet in St. Louis, the natators broke a record in every event, but Saturday five of these marks were cracked anew and Ray Ruddy, of Columbia, and George Kojac, of Rutgers, set marks in the 440-yard freestyle and the 150 back-stroke respectively that now stand as the best ever. In Friday's events Bud Moles, Princeton's crack breaststroker, broke the mark for 200 yards in his event when he covered the distance in two minutes, 34 seconds. Also in the preliminaries on Friday, the Northwestern medley relay team clipped one fifth...
Michigan took a big lead in the point scoring at the very start when their crack relay team. Big Ten champions, paddled to a clear cut victory in the opening event despite Kojac's valiant effort for Rutgers. Following this, Bud Moles again asserted his supremacy among the back-strokers, churning through the waters for an easy win, al though he didn't better the record he set up the day before...
Last night's events, giving Harvard swimming enthusiasts their first taste of real first-class competition, provided thrills galore. Ruddy, the Columbia crack long-distance man, provided the major thrill of the evening by defeating his chief rivals Clapp, of Stanford and Ault, of Michigan, in a grilling furlong swim. All three men had already put on stellar exhibitions in trial heats of the 440, and yet they battled through to a hair-breadth finish in the 220. Ruddy was the winner, followed by Clapp, while Ault fell behind in the last stages of the race...