Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dressed & undressed a full-rigged ship (dummy). Fascist youths 50,000 strong, from 6-year-old Sons of the Wolf to 18-year-old Young Fascists, drilled to the music of 2,600 trumpets which at one point blew the Wedding March from Lohengrin. This caused irrepressible Italians to crack of the Dictators: "Are they exchanging wedding rings...
Campbell who ran a sizzling 1:57.4 half-mile in the handicap meet and hasn't been extended since, is a sure bet in the 880. And, incidentally, he may well crack the meet record of 1:58.2, set by Bill Bingham in 1913. He will double in the 440, where the Crimson has been weakened by the loss of Dan Hamilton, weakened to such an extent that Exeter swept the event Saturday...
...Partlow, the wiry little jumper and sprinter who claims he does better when he isn't feeling well, should take the broad jump, and may crack the record of 23 feet, 6 inches; he came within four inches of that mark against Exeter. A consistent six-footer, he is a good bot in the high jump, may win points if he runs the country...
...figure in this management is quiet George Doswell Brooke, 36 of whose 60 years have been spent in railroading, 14 of them with C. & O. A crack operating man, George Brooke once taught at Culver Military Academy, plays good golf, is extraordinarily neat. To his friends he is known as "Babbling Brooke" because he says so little. Says Robert Young: "He opens his mouth every other day and devotes the rest of his time to the C. & O." Mr. Young claims that the Guaranty interests would rather see a C. & O. president whose chief interest is in railroad finance instead...
...Smith, Barney & Co. Last week these two firms offered 416,666 shares of common stock at $10 a share to a select group. By week's end some 75% of the stock had been taken up. If the rest remains unsold, the general public may get a crack at it at a slightly higher price...