Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That return journey last week was terrific for the airship's crew. East of Newfoundland they headed into a gale. It threatened to crack up the boat. Dr. Hugo Eckener headed into the wind and slowed his motors. The wind blew him backwards at the rate of 32½ ft. a second...
Nearly every U. S. citizen knows the name of the super-famed crack express train which plys between New York and Chicago. Similarly every smart European knows the Orient Express, famed Paris-to-Bucharest flyer. Last week this train de luxe sped Parisward from Bucharest, Rumania with shrieking whistle, tolling bell, toward Death...
Candid friends of Seer David, 26, rejoiced last week that he will espouse wholesome, Crack-Fishermaiden Miss Rachel Spender-Clay, 21, who announced that she will wed "sometime next year...
Then the Corps wheels through the sally-ports, and the silent ranks become alive. For the last time the plebe tucks his chin into his collar, heaves until his muscles crack on his shoulders, and holds his breath for a last instant. The ranks are halted; the front rank faces about, and the hands that were denied him for a year are seeking his. The bitterness leaves him. That is a holy time...
...Callaghan writes accurate, tightly packed and swiftly nailed dialogue. He tells his plot like a crack reporter. He tries to solve problems of motive by having his leading character, Harry Trotter, take strange and solitary walks into the night. For no good reason, Trotter leaves his wife, drifts into the bootlegging business. In his relations with gangsters and with other women, his mind takes jumps to his wife?her mannerisms, her legs. Finally, as he decides to go back to her. he is shot in a gang feud...