Word: crested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Navy V. Columbia- On Manhattan's Harlem River, glazed with iridescent oil spots but for once free of driftwood, two crews sprinted away from a flagged line, heading downstream on the crest of a fast tide. In their hearts the hometown rooters had little faith that the Blue & White shell, containing three sophomores who had never been in a varsity race, could do much to the big Navy boatload. Over the smooth water to high bridge the boats kept abreast, but at the bridge MacRae Sykes, sharp-faced stroke, put the beat up. In a few strokes open water...
...white men. But without waiting for the arrival of Expert Parker, the excavators continued digging in the Hill of Torture. They found five more skeletons. Then Rev. Peter F. Cusick, director of the shrine, and Curator John E. Wyman of the Montgomery County Historical Society became suspicious. The hill crest must have been the burial ground not of the martyrs, but of those who had tomahawked them. A leaden trinket, tortoise-shaped, seemed to indicate an Iroquois burial ground...
...years ago, when he produced Rose Marie, Producer Hammerstein was on the crest. The show made him $3,000,000. Shortly thereafter he built a $2,300,000 theatre with a bronze statue of his father, Impresario Oscar Hammerstein, in the lobby. The father's opera hat was put in the cornerstone and ten stained glass windows commemorated the operas he produced. From that time on, Producer Hammerstein fell upon evil days. The Wild Rose, The Golden Dawn, Polly, Madeleine were not successes. Sweet Adeline was wrecked by the 1929 Crash. Says he: "I was a real estate operator...
...bottles and preserved goods from all over the world, many painted in pastel shades. Smooth salesmen in morning coats and striped trousers greet the visitors. Much has been done to preserve the British tradition. On exhibit at last week's opening was a tremendous woodcock pie around whose crest were the skulls of 20 woodcocks, a replica of the pie which every year the Irish Free State sends to the King of England. Near the lift is a British coat-of-arms...
Less definite in statement was Mr. Kurihara's very sage observation that: ". . . The market to be worth while on the opposite side of the deep valley will make the crest market, the sharp-witted traders will benefit for and the good-sized profit as from the basement to the roof will multiply for the small seed money and an occasion to pour a water over the sleeping ears...