Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether or not Adlai Stevenson gets into the White House, he seems sure of a place in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Though his voice has been to Princeton, and his words occasionally sound Wilsonian, at other times they have the dry crack of a Will Rogers aphorism. Some samples from his speeches last week...
This year's National Amateur was to be held at the Seattle Country Club, almost in his own backyard; Westland, now a grey-templed 47, decided to take his eighth crack at it. He had also decided on a crack at politics as a Republican candidate for Congress from Washington's Second District. Instead of practicing putts, he had been out buttonholing supporters and cruising around Everett in a car covered with signs proclaiming: "You Can Trust Jack Westland...
Central Churchmanship. Geoffrey Fisher's father was a country vicar in Warwickshire; so was his father before him. Geoffrey grew up in the calm Christianity of the family parsonage, and never forgot it. After a brilliant record at Exeter College, Oxford (where he was a crack lightweight oarsman), he turned to the church. He was ordained in 1911. Three years later, at 27, he was appointed headmaster of Repton School...
...delta-winged or twin-boomed (like the U.S.'s old P-38)? He chose axial flow, even though Sir Frank Whittle, who pioneered jets, advised the other; Sopwith thinks the Sapphire proved his own judgment right. His choice of delta-wing at first shocked Sopwith's crack designer, Sydney Camm, who dashed off to Yorkshire to seek "The Skipper," crying: "I won't have it! I won't have it!" The Skipper's calm reply: "Why?" Designer Camm returned to his drawing board convinced. Says he: "When he asks you why and looks...
Until late 1942, Pinto was assigned to British Counterintelligence, a body which requires gentlemanly behavior of its agents. British spycatchers are not permitted, as Gestapo agents were, to pull out fingernails and toenails, or to crack open stubborn skulls with screw-hoops of steel. In some cases they are not even permitted to call a suspect a liar; they must say politely: "I suggest that your answer to my last question contained certain inaccuracies." Moreover, since no confession obtained under duress is valid in British law, the catcher must take care not to hector or bully his man beyond...