Word: crisped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quick big-toothed smile are more than vaguely Rooseveltian. Years ago as a Japanese diplomat Baron Shidehara knew the Rough Rider President, recalls him warmly as "my friend." Asked recently point blank, "Has anyone ever told you that you look like Roosevelt?" Japan's Foreign Minister replied with crisp satisfaction, ''Yes, someone told me that in Washington on my first visit...
...hold the office for three years, then become successively Vice-Commodore and Commodore. Commodore Aldrich succeeds Vincent Astor (who succeeded Harold Sterling ["Mike''] Vanderbilt) and will probably be succeeded, year after next, by Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. His fellow members have been pleased and amused by the crisp, business-like manner in which Commodore Aldrich conducts even such informal meetings as last fortnight's aboard the Viking...
...slogan. He announced that his institution had $25,513,000 in absolutely liquid assets, would remain open and keep paying until everyone was satisfied. To show that he meant business, trucks from the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank drew up to his doors laden with $11,000,000 in crisp new currency. At the end of the day four other Toledo banks were still keeping their heads above water. Two were industrial banks; two were smaller concerns...
...races. The next year, Sun Beau won six races out of 14 in which he started. Because he won five of them in September and October, people began to speak of him as a "fall horse," a horse seasoned instead of staled by summer's competition, fastest on crisp autumn days. Last year was Sun Beau's best season: the prizes he won amounted to $105,005 and his owner, Willis Sharpe Kilmer, decided to enter him in the $100,000 Agua Caliente Handicap. An odds-on favorite, Sun Beau was badly beaten by Robert M. Eastman...
...cages of stout iron bars. On wooden benches inside the cages last week sat 178 scowling swarthy Sicilians, all soberly dressed. Scattered among the prisoners were a few self-conscious carabinieri fingering their white shoulder belts nervously. Entered the jury that had been deliberating for four days. "Guilty!" - in crisp official Italian, the judge pronounced sentences...