Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whop, Crack, Smash...
...Daytona" in your Aug. 23 issue, for example: "Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway at the south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...
...first round. Nowadays Goodman sells much more insurance, travels in better cars, wears better clothes. He was third-best amateur in the 1929 U. S. Open second-best in 1930, best in 1932 and again this year. In 1933 he won the Open against a held of crack professionals. In the U S Amateur he was runner-up in 1932 and a semifinalist in 1935 and 1936, but never won it. Last week he seemed overdue...
...well as enthusiastic amateurs. Owner Gubelmann was not aboard Seven Seas last week but his son Walter was. So was 18-year-old George Emlen Roosevelt Jr., cousin of the President, who has crossed the Atlantic 14 times under sail. On the Conrad were George M. Pynchon Jr., crack blue-water yachtsman, and Vadim Makaroff, son of a Russian admiral and second husband of young Owner Hartford's thrice-married sister, Marie Josephine Hartford O'Donnell Makaroff Douglas...
...others don't "run after the chaplains, nor crawl to governors, nor run with the sissies." Sickened by the perversion he saw all around him, Mansell was helped out by big, tough Bill Weldon, doing a five-year stretch for robbery, who told him that most lifers crack in the first month, drew him into a circle of accomplished thieves, big-time bank robbers, Socialists. This organization centred at the carpenter shop, was respected by the guards, smuggled in tobacco and books, got its members transferred to the best jobs by wire-pulling as elaborate as any in ward...