Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pounding south one night last week, the crack Paris-Toulouse night express sped toward sleeping Chateauroux. Outside of town, with braked wheels flaming, the express smashed into two freight cars and curled up in a heap of tortured junk, from which trapped passengers screamed for help until long after dawn...
...charges of opium smoking last summer, wealthy French Elégants suspected that M. Cocteau had got in the habit of giving it to his friends among the poor-sailors, waiters, etc., on whom the authorities, for fear they might turn to crime to satisfy their expensive craving, crack down. Last week Jean Cocteau was found guilty, given a one-week suspended sentence...
Born. To Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, 42, crack Eastern Air Lines pilot who made the first round-trip hop between the U. S. and Europe; and Martha Virginia ("Toby") Wing, 22-year-old cinemactress: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Fortnight ago newshawks found out they had been married since last June...
Born. To William Augustus ("Wild Bill") Wellman, 43, crack cinema director (Nothing Sacred, Men With Wings), and his fourth wife: a daughter, their third child; in Hollywood...
Although the Associated Royal Warrant Holders can crack down by law on British usurpers, the U. S. is a permanent headache. At present the association is piqued at Philip Morris Co. for sporting a coat of arms on its Marlboro cigaret package, thus implying a royal warrant...