Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Mrs. Gray, ardent W. C. T. U. supporter, told newshawks: "Liquor is wicked in itself, and the source of most of the world's wickedness." Said her husband: "Oh, don't listen to her. She's not just a Dry, she's a Prohibition crank. Prohibition will never work, in my opinion." He is proud that little Pasco has not had a murder in 30 years...
...members of the outrigger. The ship is all-metal, blue and silver, weighs under 1,000 lb. Anything but racy, it looks and is a winged bus. The venturi tube (which catches the wind for the speed indicator) attached to the nose outside, even suggests an oldtime Ford crank. But it is the cabin interior that Designer Stout has ingeniously arranged to make the automobile driver feel instantly at home. The dashboard almost exactly duplicates that of the oldtime Model T Ford car. The pilot sits at the wheel, flips a conventional Ford motor switch on the instrument board, presses...
...than look at the pictures, read the often ponderously British captions underneath, wonder what the English see in them to smile at. And there the occa- sional Punch reader is too hasty, for hidden away in those oldfashioned, closely printed columns are to be found many a quip and crank that would wreathe even an alien reader in smiles. For the past three years Alan Patrick Herbert, Punch staff member and tireless contributor, has been regaling readers with the letters of Topsy, exclamatory and energetic post-War type, to her bosom friend. Publishers Doubleday, Doran have collected them...
...wind with its wings to check its speed, the comparison would have been more than poetical. The wings of the biplane, adjustable in flight, did just that. Lower and upper wings are rigidly connected with struts, remain in the same relation to each other. But by a hand-crank in the pilot's cockpit, the lower wing can be moved fore & aft, pendulum-like, through an arc of 14 degrees, tilting the upper wing to the same degree. About to land, the pilot sets his wings at the maxi mum angle, throttles the motor, and lets the plane settle...
...Taos, where the bronze men stalk about in white sheets; most picturesque is atop the big mesa rock at Acoma, whence the women must descend for water). In all, there are about 75,000 Indians in this district. Every now & then their chiefs hitch up covered wagons or crank up battered motor trucks and travel through the varicolored badlands to councils called by tall, tanned, benign Herbert James Hagerman, 59, onetime (1906-1907) Governor of New Mexico Territory, now special Interior Department Commissioner to handle the business of 21 tribes. Constantly his little official car is speeding over the roads...