Word: cricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS). Famed rural comedy tops off more than 25,000 country stage performances with its radio debut, opening Four Corners Theatre series...
...within the columns of the "patent insides" [i. e. syndicated pages]. Many a publisher uses it either because of laziness, local news scarcity, or because he feels the "patents" give his readers a pleasant respite from such red hot local items as "Bill McSwiggerty was riding up Box Elder Crick for strayed cattle this week," or, "Ed Huffnagle was female-ing up at Spooners' Corners Wednesday night...
When Mrs. Helen Wills Moody fell ill last week of what her doctors called "sub-acute unstable fifth lumbar vertebrae symptoms" and what Sports Colyumist Westbrook Pegler called "a crick in her back," it looked alarming for the U. S. Wightman Cup team. The ablest substitute in sight was slim, brown Sarah Palfrey, a girl who has played the most graceful tennis in the U. S. for the last four years but who has always, out of some childish nervousness, failed to do her best in important matches. Last fortnight Sarah Palfrey beat U. S. Champion Helen Jacobs...
Outside the windows of Reporter Miller's "studio" above the San Diego tugboat pier, sea-sophisticated seagulls flap their tapered wings, crick their necks at the oldtimer seated at his desk within. Word has passed along about him for six seagull incubations, egg to egg. He is the book editor and waterfront reporter on the San Diego Sun, Max Miller. When he thinks of how far his waterfront assignments have gotten him he feels slightly gulled himself...
Dive--Harvard: J. P. Duane '32 and R. G. Luckey '31; M. I. T.: Lynch and Crick...