Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Long-Lugger. The Baltimore & Ohio has 21 engines named after Presidents. They haul the B. & O.'s Capitol Limited and National Limited and other crack trains and last week the President Pierce, with a mechanical stoker feeding Pittsburgh seam coal into the fire box, made an experimental trip over the 786 miles between Chicago and Washington, † Normally four locomotives, changing at three stations, are necessary on the Chicago-Washington...
Blue butter, a'stutter, a'flutter, no mutter, no matter, no clatter, that picture, that stricture gives rise, not wisely but unwisely, to the crack, to the smack, fee-fi-io-flack, It's a nose, it's a Nose, it's a NOSE...
Died. Cregar B. Quaintance of Denver, able lawyer, onetime crack pitcher at Amherst College and the University of Michigan; by murder; in Denver...
...conflict with the equally blind forgetfulness of the world to which he returned. It just misses being a fine play. Its chances of success are greatly enhanced by the presence of Spencer Tracy as the hero, and Frank McHugh, whose characterization of a top-sergeant is one of the crack performances of the season. She Got What She Wanted. Evidently on the theory that if the triangle play has been successful the rectangle play should be still more so, George Rosener has written one about three men and a maid. Subtly done it might not have been...
...gloom which descended over Cambridge with the announcement that O. P. Jackson '29, crack Harvard goalie, was ineligible for service in this final game owing to scholastic difficulties has become even heavier. The University's probation rules have taken toll of one more Crimson player. Yesterday it was learned that W. L. Elkins '28, slated to take Jackson's place, would also be hors de combat. As a result, H. H. Newell '29, understudy of Joseph Morrill '29 last year, will bear the burden of turning aside the Yale shots...