Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first to speak was Poet Robert Frost. He read Longfellow's Flight Into Egypt, dwelt a while on his own favorite theme of "vocal imagination" -"Longfellow, you see," said Poet Frost, "used no figures of speech. Our poets today, a lot of them, are metaphor-crackers. They crack metaphors as other people crack jokes"-and concluded: "The idea that the only literature is the literature of the past is wrong. This meeting, the Institute, might well be the beginning of a renaissance." Sprightly Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay was present. She contributed no theorizing, merely read from her poetical...
...Crack for Crack...
TIME to me was the greatest investment I ever made in my life. I enjoyed every line in each number I read for over two years, but when you are poor enough sport to take a dirty crack at my business, Outdoor Advertising, then I am through and every chance I get to return the dirty crack I am going to take it. Our business has 72 branches...
WHITE CARGO?Under the Harsh suns of Africa, the morals of men curl up and crack. In this instance, the suns are assisted in no small part by native women...
...greatest individual feat of the contest was the half-mile run between Watters of Harvard and Leness, famed Tech mid-distance man. Those, who witnessed the race will not soon forget the astonishing pace the palr set up from the crack of the pistol. Physically both men appeared in excellent shape, but as in all athletic competition physical condition is not all that counts. Undoubtedly Watters ran a more heady race than Leness and consequently he broke the worsted two yards in the lead. The Crimson half-miler took advantage of the Engineer's broad back to shelter him from...