Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mowed down. He turned parts of his Hudson Valley estate at Rhinebeck, N.Y. into a model farm, parts into a holiday home for invalid children. He kicked off and often led a house-to-house canvass of tenements built on his land, urged New York police to crack down on lawbreaking landlords. In later years, during Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's social-reform surge, he demolished slum tenements by the dozen, sold others to New York City on easy terms...
...Banks, finally got his master's papers and wound up part owner of a schooner that was supposed to carry passengers from Hawaii to Tahiti. Only when his ship piled up in a gale did the handsome blond sailor finally agree to take a Hollywood offer and a crack at pictures...
...quickly. He streamlined the company by merging the Ferguson and Massey-Harris distribution systems, which often competed with each other, into the new Massey-Ferguson Ltd. He put in tight inventory controls, raised salaries and bonuses of salesmen and branch managers to give them more incentive, brought in a crack young management team to push sales...
Tonight the Crimson will send a small contingent to the B.A.A. Games at the Boston Garden. In particular, the mile relay team will get another crack at the sensational Yale quartet...
...this way: George S. Kaufmann was a truly witty man but he let his wit turn into wise-crack; and his successors, who are generally less witty, are even more fond of wisecracking, and these are the men who are setting the pace today. But this is enough on the theater...