Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Lipton, gallant yachtsman with the barnacle beard whose toast is drunk in 5,000,000 cups of tea, is a sportsman who has made an enormous reputation for his tea by knowing how to be beaten. Last week, in the famed Shamrock IV, he heard a pistol crack and scurried past a buoy at Cowes, England. Pennants crackled stiffly at mastheads; admirals, generals, statesmen, literary lions, captains of industry, peers and parasites eyed the heeling white boats, for it was the first day of the famed Cowes Week, and the King's cutter with Prince Henry...
Heavy engagements were reported in various sectors of the fighting line. French Spahis, crack Algerian cavalry and other cavalry detachments hurled the enemy back from their recently acquired positions. Tanks were also employed in driving the Riffians from their entrenchments. At the western end of the Wergha Valley, the rebels were driven back into the Spanish zone where, in conjunction with the French, Spanish troops were preparing to deal with them. After these engagements, undertaken in an appalling heat wave, the war became less hectic. A calm that precedes a storm settled on the front...
General Jackson challenged Dickinson, who was a crack shot, because he had insulted Mrs. Jackson. They fought with pistols at eight yards. Dickinson fired first and wounded Jackson near the heart. Jackson took deliberate aim and pulled the trigger. Then it was not Dickinson's, but Jackson's, pistol that stopped at , half cock. Jackson, sorely wounded, cocked it again and shot Dickinson, mortally wounding...
...national holidays, Christmas presents "and so forth." Very different from "chewing the rag." He is the delight of a vast audience that relishes: an elaborate Southern simile- (false teeth that clattered) "like a fox-trotting horse with a loose shoe crossing a covered bridge;" an unexpected wise-crack-"King George the Fifth and Queen Mary the Four Fifths;" a sensible suggestion-floor lights, clothes ockers, tractable windows, longer blankets for Pullman cars, wash suits for city men in summer...
...ragged monte-banks passing through a wintry defile; Chilkoot Pass. Chaplin left behind in the dash for gold, blown to the door of a lonely cabin. Does the hearty Westerner within open his door, warm the tattered stranger with a glass of whiskey? No; he snarls through a crack in the window; Chilly Chaplin reels off in the storm...