Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the grey silence of northern Alaska was ruptured by an occasional rifle crack. Furtive eyes of the wild hiding in snow-hung tamarack tangles would see a fur-muffled Eskimo dragging his quarry to a camp fire, where seven other humans busied themselves preparing sledges and sleeping bags for another night in the wilderness, and 58 tawny-and-grey husky dogs nuzzled down to rest or sat on their haunches growling for supper...
...glad they got in uh crack uhbout thet christmus tree on th' corner uv Tremont an' Boylstun Streets, better known ez James F Mahoney Square. Ef any uv these Harvard undergraduates understand whut th' thing is all uhbout--I mean th' Xmas tree signul--then there educatiun aint in vain...
...head chopped off in 1649. Some one pulled a whisker from the chin. That whisker became a "sacred" symbol to be venerated by Anglo-Catholics when they celebrated "King Charles the Martyr's Day," Jan. 30. At this veneration the Churchman, upright and respected Protestant weekly, took another crack last week when it reported the protest of Dean Howard Chandler Robbins of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine against "the tendency [of Anglo-Catholics] to import into America certain English viewpoints and emphases which are alien and exotic...
...Starzynska's pearl-festooned pose in a Patou gown; even the fact that Rigaud perfume was used to scent the house at Consuelo Vanderbilt's wedding; even Mrs. Oliver Harriman's frosty elegance of face and phrase in the Willys-Knight reminders; even Prince Luis de Bourbon's witty crack in the new and aristocratic American Tobacco Co. series: "When do you feel like a prince? Smoking a Melachrino...
...breaks, both the defending champions and the Eli runners will probably find it difficult to break into the first place column in the two mile run, the 40-yard dash, or the mile run. the Crimson leader stands supreme in eastern two mile circles and is expected to crack his own indoor intercollegiate record of 9 minutes 32 2-5, hung up in last year's meet...