Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot sign our names to this, but it is no crank letter. You want to know what the disabled veterans think about the World Peace-ways "Hello, Sucker" matter. Here is what two of us think, and we know there are many more who would say the same thing...
...tight-lipped listener was Mrs. Aimé, well-loved sister of WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins. Last week, explaining that Mrs. Meyer's speech had already caused Brother Harry some embarrassment in the form of crank letters and might cause him more as the political campaign grew hotter, Sister Adah resigned her new job as National Youth Administration director for three New York counties, declared : "It is too bad my work in the district has not been allowed to stand or fall on its merits. The leading social workers of the county . . . urged my appointment and induced me to accept...
...piano, strikes an F sharp chord and painstakingly picks out the tune while a musical stenographer writes down the notes. Irving Berlin never had a music lesson. He plays by ear, in only one key. If he wants the effect of another, he turns a crank and the keyboard shifts...
...castles) and the grey John the Baptist painted on the other side. Because where once hung the panel in the Flemish galleries of the Berlin Museum there was tacked a placard reading, TAKEN FROM GERMANY BY THE VERSAILLES TREATY, the Belgian Press bellowed, "Nazis!" Authorities, however, suspected a crank, hoped to retrieve the painting soon, for so well is it known no man could sell it, only a feudal baron could hang it with safety...
...Elect, mortally felled Mayor Cermak of Chicago who stood beside his car. In the car behind sat Vincent Astor, Raymond Moley and Frederic Kernochan. A few moments before as the cars crept through the throng Mr. Astor had said to the others of his great and good friend: "Any crank might take a shot at him. I don't like this. It's too dangerous...