Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machine-made play, performed by actors in the best clothing dummy style. Robert Emmett Keane, the Reading man, characterized by Critic Hammond as a "straw-hat comedian," signalizes every impending wise crack with a lift of the katy...
...team has not played together long enough" said Captain Clarke recently, "and they are very temperamental. In some of their games in the Commonwealth Armory against crack military outfits, they played like whirlwinds, and the next day they went to pieces...
When it was discovered that a similar impromptu call had been paid at the Rumanian Legation, where five sticks of dynamite and a fuse were discovered in a crack of the doorstep, the Government ordered a close watch to be kept on all Legations and reinforced the police by two companies of infantry...
...venerable savants of the French Academy decided to admit the following Anglo-Saxon sporting terms into the French language: challenge, camping, bookmaker, cricket, Boy Scout, champion, bridge. The words canter, crack and crawl were rejected...
...games on February 2, the Crimson relay team defeated Yale by nearly half a lap in the yearly two-mile race. And in the one mile relay at the Intercollegiates, last Saturday, an untried Harvard team entered against a score of crack college teams, finished in second place, being beaten by only a fraction of an inch by the famous Yale quartet in close to world's record time...