Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same bill is "Hogan's Alley", which takes another crack at Irish mickfighting in New York. When we were very small indeed, there was a little boy named Oscar who lived beside a vegetable garden. Every Fall when Jack Frost got in his dirty work on the vegetables, we got in ours on Oscar. Overripe tomatoes made such an excellent missive that Oscar's mother soon complained to the proper authorities, and the game was off. We spent the rest...
...University foilsmen, fresh from their sensational victory over the Army at West Point last week, will meet three crack swordsmen from the J. Sanford Saltus Club of New York at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the Hemonway Gymnasium Sallo d'Armes...
...quite sure whether the shock was an explosion of some sort or whether it was of geologic origin. Now, however, there is no doubt that it was an internal disturbance, located near Medford. There is no truth, however, in the supposition that it was due to a frost crack. While it is often possible for the weather to affect the earth's peace, in this instance it has not been the case...
...expressions and terms which originate in the colleges and universities as a rule have both the subtle, and the extremely ridiculous elements which make good humor. They are, however, of too local a nature to be appreciated by most audiences. The primary requirement of the stage "wise crack" is that it be comprehensible to a majority of the listeners...
...entertained the citizens of New Haven with nocturnal thunderings from his red racing car, his classmates remembered with respect a Harvard athlete who, a few years before, had stormed their fort with every crimson team-one Wrenn, Robert. He had played on the baseball nine; he had been a crack hockey forward; a resolute and heady quarterback-beyond question as good an all-around athlete as had attended any eastern college for perhaps a generation. His friends lost money to him at golf. Before Reginald Vanderbilt had left college, this Wrenn was National Tennis Champion, had, he admitted, a weakness...