Word: crisping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wealth of Cornelius I clung to the family through the generations, but Vanderbilt skill and dominance seems to have thinned. Here begins the story of Cornelius IV, fifth in the line of primogeniture. A chubby-featured boy with crisp curly hair, some thought they could discern in him an underlying physical frailty. He went to St. Paul's school with other sons of wealth. He got his higher education at Harstrom's Tutoring School. He went to France during the War in the Ambulance Service and was gassed, decorated...
...Significance. Mr. Bullitt's story is too crisp and close-packed for adequate retelling. It is set down with a force, sweep and wine-laden atmosphere quite its own. On these first credentials alone the author passes for as formidable and welcome a newcomer among U.S. novelists as has arrived in many a day? a writer with the wide stance of the old school, the bold tongue of the new, and the deep, unfaltering insight which is taught in no school but is the birthright of big human historians...
...crisp official envelope was posted at Geneva. Soon it was bobbing across the waves to Washington. Inclosed was an invitation from the League of Nations requesting the U. S. Government to send a representative to Geneva on Sept. 1. There and then will meet a special conference of the 48 nations adherent to the World Court, at which the reservations passed by the U. S. Senate (TIME, Feb. 8, CONGRESS) as the conditions upon which the U. S. will adhere to the World Court will be considered...
...monkey meat" ("canned willie," corn beef), welcome substitute for the "frigo" (frozen beef), welcome substitute for the sloppy, though nourishing slumgullion ' of the ration. This bacon was not so neatly packed, so elegantly handled as was the civilian product yet it was clean, wholesome, nourishing. Fragrant, crisp, dripping grease, on thick white bread and with a canteen cup full of hot coffee-"Bring on your...
...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY-A crisp and pliant comedy of polite larceny among the English nobility...