Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kansas City decided to let French painters in on his $30,000 Christmas card contest last fall, he little knew what he was stirring up. The French, he announced, would get half the prizes; their pictures would be judged by an all-French jury and they would have a crack at the $3,500 prix international on an even-Stephen basis with U.S. artists. Hall Brothers, Inc. (Hallmark cards) would become sole proprietor of the winning entries (with royalties to the artists). What Hall failed to take into account was the French Communists...
Over the whole regiment scene last week sat Branch Rickey himself. He and his coaches were prepared to hear some scoffing. In fact, Rickeyman Fresco Thompson, onetime Dodger infielder and now assistant director of the Dodgers minor league operations, himself made the crack that traditionalists had been groping for. "Next year," said Thompson, "we're putting in three mechanical batters. Then we'll be able to leave the players at home...
Dean Leighton has already instructed Yard police and proctors to crack down on pyramiders. They are to break up all parties and tell the members to disband. Nevertheless, well over 30 meetings are scheduled for tonight, and it is doubtful whether any will be halted...
...refers to her as "Mrs. Thing," claims she has "a hide like an elephant." Another summed up: "She's amiable, of course, but she's commonplace, that's the word-so full of deportment." Adds Virginia-born Lady Astor, a past mistress of the catty crack: "She gives enormous parties that nobody who's anybody really ought...
...burbling of the American governor is one of the thoughts behind the savage crack that one honest, deeply anti-Fascist Munich businessman made to me: "Despite all the reeducation, sometimes it seems that Military Government is determined to convince Germans again that they really are a superior race...