Word: crick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...willing and an honest Englishman, one Mr. Crick, has been driven nearly distracted during the past six months, trying to serve as postmaster in the Welsh village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch...
...Poor Mr. Crick has amply proved that he has no flair for names of 58 letters and longer. Local Welshmen and Welshwomen have been getting each other's mail, and opening some of it, too. In despair, last week, Postmaster Crick resigned and enlisted in the Navy. Therefore Sir William Mitchell Thomson, His Majesty's Postmaster General, was earnestly besought to send a Welshman to juggle polysyllables in Sailor Crick's stead. Darkly brooding upon this matter, Sir William fretfully observed to correspondents that "doubts exist whether the spelling of the town's name really...
...near a solution. But it is nothing to the spectacle of Mr. Coolidge's gunmen coming in from Washington to put all the works on Mr. Thompson's friends, to advance the cause of Wet America First and the Draft Coolidge cause. Credulity can get a crick in the neck even in Chicago politics...
Perhaps the shower that fell that afternoon gave Bobby a crick in the neck. Many thought so, though he refused to admit it. Or perhaps it was just one of those inexplicable lapses that the best of players cannot escape. At all events, it was a different Jones that hooked to the rough and traps, sent his approaches wide and missed diminutive putts the next day against 21-year-old Arthur Jamieson Jr., whose work around the greens more than earned him his place in the semifinal. There Jamieson was trimmed by S. F. Simpson, while Jess Sweetser was demonstrating...
Within the Spencer Thermostat, there will be a little disc of flexible metal. When an iron or percolator gets too hot, crick! will go the disc, convex like a bubble, and cut off the current. When the iron cools, crack! concave like a saucer, and the current will go on again. Two metals in the disc contract and expand with the temperature, but unequally, causing the disc to warp, crick . . . crack...