Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shaggy Highland ponies to the moors last week, included: Banker John Pierpont Morgan at Gannochy, Forfarshire; Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay at Glentromie; Engineer and Fly-fisherman Edward R. Hewitt, grandson of Philanthropist Peter Cooper, at BalmakeIlly; Philadelphia Socialite Clarence M. Clark at Murthly Castle; General John Joseph Pershing, crack shot, set out for a party at a spot he declined to name...
...Dartmouth, pipe-smoking naval officers were sprawled on the Devon-green grass listening to the clear crack of willow bat on cricket ball, watching their more athletic colleagues play the youngsters of the Royal Naval College. The cadet eleven ginined happily in their spotless white flannels and played close. They had just caught a grizzled Lieutenant-Commander leg-before-wicket, and the present batsmen, for all their massive shin guards and bushy eyebrows, seemed easy. Suddenly at a whispered word from the sidelines the long-white-coated umpire stopped the game and announced...
...crack of the gun Frank Wykoff, whom Charlie ("World's Fastest Human") Paddock picked as winner, was first out of his holes. He led at 20, 30, 40 yards. Bracey drew alongside him. They were even at 50 yards. Bracey went ahead, far ahead, led at 60, 70, 80. Russell Sweet drew even at 90, was a foot ahead at 95. Then out of nowhere appeared what looked like a little black ball. It was Eddie Tolan, 5 ft. 4½ in. high, running so low his knees seemed to graze the ground, who hurled himself through the tape...
...fight bends his rod nearly double. At 75 feet with a fly-rod and line he can slice a peeled banana or flick ashes from a cigaret. At 50 to 150 feet, aiming at 2-in. blocks bobbing in water, he has scored eight hits to seven by a crack rifle shot. With both bait-and fly-casting tackle he has caught muskrats, beavers, porcupines, coons, gophers, gulls, woodpeckers, quail, loons, bitterns, mud-hens. Because game-fish judge bait principally by sight rather than smell, he has cast an onion and caught a fish. He has caught bass with carrots...
...Monday afternoon the military ball players decisively repelled the Boston College aggregation. "Captain" Kidd, crack Marine hurler, was on the mound and it is not likely that he will get the call, today. He did the pitching in the first encounter this spring, but Smith, a southpaw, is slated to oppose the Harvard batters today...