Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami, Fla., Mrs. Lucille McGirt cranked her automobile in gear. With her dress caught in the crank, dragging her with it, the car crashed through a wall into a doctor's office, where Mrs. McGirt died an hour later of a broken neck...
Anonymous letters should never received consideration in the columns of a newspaper. Usually they are the work of a crank; invariably their authors are unwilling to acknowledge the opinions expressed; but whatever the subject, they can only be disregarded. By its very publication of the letter, the Maroon showed its concern over the unsuccessful teams Chicago has had during the last five years; without making editorial comment, it asked that other interested keep the discussion open. Was all the festivity of a fortnight ago a more gesture? Or was it evidence of true sentiment and devotion? Support of losing coaches...
...automobile in which he was chatting with a friend and observed that the rain was slacking. "All right, Harold; let's go," he had said, as he might have suggested "Let's go to the movies." To a small group of drenched spectators, "Somebody want to crank me up?" The light of photographers' flares and the stabbing finger of a revolving beacon picked out the white Lockheed at the head of the runway for a moment. Then a roar from the supercharged Wasp motor, a streak down the field, and the Winnie Mae's navigating lights...
...week in Manhattan). It was revealed that for nearly 25 years, since they first met at the Bohemian Club's jolly grove near San Francisco, Pedagog Butler and Banker Crocker have been regaling each other across the continent, exchanging things they find amusing. Sometimes they send jokes, sometimes crank letters; but mostly clippings of those little boxed stories called "freaks"' which are the delight of make-up men striving to fill holes on their front pages. Explained Banker Crocker: "Dr. Butler is very human. We have found our friendly interchange by mail has helped to make life worth...