Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this ceremony, Mrs. Curtis D. Wilbur will leave her pots and pans* will abandon her clothes line, will travel (presumably in a parlor-car), will provide herself with a champagne-model gingerbeer bottle, will crack it upon the very front and prow of the unfinished hulk...
...evening (Eastern Time) when a series of quivers began. They were felt all through New England and New York, ebbing away but still perceptible as far south as Washington and as far west as Chicago, and also in Canada. The quivers lasted for about four minutes. A fault or crack in the rock strata, either the Logan's Fault coming down from Canada, via Lake Champlain and the northern Hudson Valley, or the Fundian Fault which runs southwest off the Maine coast, from the Bay of Fundy, is believed to have been responsible. The records on seismographs seem...
...been ordered to report, when questioned in regard to the latter's plans, emphasized the fact that any opportunity of Major Daly to act in the capacity of football teacher would be limited to his spare time. "Major Daly" he said, "is being welcomed to the University as a crack field artilleryman, a phase of army work which we are stressing, as a Harvard graduate and as a West Point man. Any coaching work will be purely incidental...
...Stand back there, you coyotes," snapped D. O. O'Donnell, brandishing a revolver. Eleven officers of the law were cowed. "Crack!" barked a gun. "Ow!" screamed an officer, as the bullet plunged its way through the fleshy part of his left arm. In the wings, a woman screamed, fell fainting onto the stage. Onlookers guffawed...
...Parker Gilbert, Cora, Countess of Strafford, Lady Astor, Frederick Sterling, Counsellor of the U. S. Embassy; Ray Atherton, First Secretary; Boylston A. Deal, special attache. The men were dressed in court costume, the ladies in expensive gowns. The banquet over, the King and the other gentlemen stayed to crack the usual jokes and discuss the usual topics over their port and nuts. The King, said to be particularly struck with the youthful appearance of S. Parker Gilbert, Agent General of Reparations, asked him many questions about his work. The ambassadorial host then quoted Barrie, asked: "Shall we join the ladies...