Word: crisped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite above most British voters' heads, and the Cabinet knew it. By the time His Majesty's Government had risen last week, as usual without intimating to the public any of their august decisions, leading correspondents, who had been sucking on their Cabinet pipe lines, were flashing crisp dispatches...
...colony of Poles at Scotch Plains. Some Poles squeezed fancy prices from P. S. C. for their land or permission to string wires across it. But one of them, a small truck gardener and U. S. Army veteran named John Crempa, was against the wires at any price. One crisp morning last week some 2,000 of his neighbors and their fellow Poles from nearby cities swarmed to John Crempa's house for the funeral of his wife, Sophie, who had been shot by a deputy sheriff (TIME, Oct. 7). For a mile in either direction the road...
...highly intelligent problem drama, "Bright Star" which is now enjoying a short Boston run at the Plymouth prior to Tuesday's New York opening. Although quite completely absorbed in the problem which he has created Mr. Barry has studded his work with a steady dialogue flow of straight forward, crisp and frequently midriff-striking lines. The problem none the less, is the thing...
...leaves and crisp breezes and blue skies--and even multicolored thoughts--are not the only things which throb in the Vagabond's heart. There's the shrill of the whistle....the sound of the punt...the dodge of the runner....the cries of the crowd....the grunt of the tackle....the call of a play, and, all over again. Yes, gentlemen, there's also the taste of hot dogs, racoons and bad ale. There are passes too high; there are seats too low. There are kicks on the field; there's kicking in the grandstand. There is good interference...
Last week he filed a crisp account of mating between humans and apes on a Soviet experimental farm, adding as a snapper: "The purpose seems to be to improve the next generation of the Soviet population." That done, Jan Otmar Berson dropped in on one of the concluding sessions of the Communist Congress for promoting the null Revolution of the World Proletariat. The Comintern's final act was to revive the post of Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal...