Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Simpson will be published this week under the title Her Name Was Wallis Warfield.* It also contains one of the "sparkling epigrams" for which Mrs. Simpson has a reputation. The epigram: "Soup is an uninteresting liquid which gets you nowhere." Almost an epigram was Mrs. Simpson's crack when British friends suggested and subsequently arranged that she should be presented at Court in 1931 to their King George...
...lost in the next few years, no one who knows will tell. Presumably the figure was big enough to bother even optimistic Mr. Meehan. His firm did some heroic retrenching in the way of lopping off branch offices, including those at sea on crack transatlantic liners. But reports that the high-strung, red-haired onetime theatre ticket agent had lost his last shirt were exaggerated. Year ago Broker Meehan presented his son on his 21st birthday with a $130,000 seat on the New York Stock Exchange...
...bulge-orbed comedian dealt at length on many aspects of the field of radio, television, and the future of the broadcasting industry. In connection with news broadcasts, Cantor cut loose with the crack that "the power of the press is an outdated phrase. . . . judging by the last election...
...more recently with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic. He led the Cincinnati Symphony through nine distinguished years, heads the Orchestra and Opera Departments of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. He is considered an expert on Wagner, likes the moderns as well as Bach, snaps crack photographs on his Contax...
...thumbnail biographies of public enemies: Verne Miller, migratory worker, parachute jumper, sergeant in the U. S. Army, who became a sheriff before he became a gangster, then posed as a wealthy oilman and joined exclusive clubs; George Ziegler, landscape engineer, University of Illinois football star, Army flyer, crack golfer and gentle, well-mannered assassin...