Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...likely new House men brought in to his "school of education" by mutual friends. He does not dazzle them with brilliance. He is more apt to invite them to join him in "striking a blow for liberty" (taking a snort of Mount Vernon rye). He has no whip to crack. He does not drive. He hardly leads. But the Garner gang, fighting an intangible rebellion, is bound together by intangible ties of friendship for and trust in the old man. That such a bloc, so guided, can get results was shown last week: the President abandoned his plan, opposed...
...built with his own money 25 houses for about $2,000 each in Uvalde, the like of which cost FHA one-third more. He is making better than 10% on this operation. "If. everyone spent his money like Jack Garner, there wouldn't be any depression," is a crack attributed to Franklin Roosevelt...
...sold the pick-up plan to Civil Aeronautics Authority is All-American's socialite president, Richard du Pont, crack airplane and glider pilot. Enthusiastic advocate of air mail for Main Street, he is confident his mail-snagging line will soon have counterparts in every part of the U. S., has cannily offered his pick-up device for sale. If the service proves widely popular the railroads may have something else to worry about...
First part of an airplane to ice up in heavy weather is its windshield. It usually becomes opaque as a bathroom window long before wings and propeller begin to take on ice. Standard flying-field crack to pilots complaining about this phenomenon is "Get yourself a windshield wiper." Last week this ironic wheeze became reasonable advice...
...freshness and vitality of her performance are qualified only by the occasional drawbacks of the play itself. Certain lines--especially in the first act--come too fast for even the most hardened crack cracker; the story, containing one case of mixed identity, virulent satirizing of Henry Luce and the "Fortune" outfit, and a complex love relation, verges on the obscure. But individual scenes, such as Miss Hepburn's "interview" of "Destiny's" reporters in the first act and the love scene between Van Heflen and Miss Hepburn in the second, show real brilliance, and give to the play an underlying...