Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...changa ma music? Every year. I keepa all new pieces in ma machine. She goodda machine, too. Buy her in New York long time ago. Try crank her. See, very easy," but the CRIMSON man disliked the task, and released his grip thus abruptly ending the syncopated tune of "Yes Sir, that's my Baby", one of Joe's latest "hits...
...sent you over here? How're things at the Main Desk? No. nobody here. I know that guy that tipped you off, though. He's a crank. Writes complaints all the time about you fellows at the Main Desk cracking wise. Sure. Ignore him. Tell the boss me and Joe said Ignore...
...mean to get some good out of so much extravagance by driving it around Oelwein. Instead, what did he do but take it all apart, put it all together and take it all apart again, getting all greasy and wasting his holidays and scratching his head like a perfect crank...
...feeding and bedding them as well as could 'by any possibility be done. That he defied the Tsar, the politicians and Rasputin separately, collectively and repeatedly is well known. On one celebrated occasion the Black Monk had persuaded the Tsar to order that he, Rasputin, should inspect the Crank Duke Nicholas' lines, and the "Debauchee" wired that he was coming. He changed his plans upon receiving a one-sentence telegram from the Grand Duke Nicholas...
...into a trade. . . . Primarily I am a chemist. I have little or no time to go to the cinema. ... I do not think I have ever seen or heard before of the women you call 'Clara Bow' and 'Lillian Gish.' ... I myself turned the crank when my brother and I took our first motion picture. It was of Auguste sculling our rowboat across the River Rhone...