Word: crisping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machinery is William Tyler Page, its clerk, 47 of whose 60 years have been spent in House service. In 1881 he became Page-Boy Page. In May he will celebrate his tenth anniversary as mainspring of the-order-of-business and lord high referee (unofficially) of parliamentary perplexities. A crisp-mustached Marylander, collaterally descended from President John Tyler and directly from Signer Carter Braxton of the Declaration of Independence, faithful Clerk Page is certain of his biennial re-elections so long as the House stays Republican...
...inescapable that when Sir Leslie published his biographical dictionary he should be compared to Samuel Johnson. Friends found the same bluff exterior, the same "heart," the same relish in humor. The parallel between Dr. Allen Johnson and Dr. Samuel is obvious, superficial. Dr. Allen Johnson is diffident, crisp, quietly intellectual. Graduated from Amherst in 1892 he received his M. A. from that col lege three years later, the same year that President Coolidge was graduated cum laude. He has published a biography of Stephen A. Douglas, has delved deeply in to early Americana. At Yale, he was Larned Professor...
With a horse, Ulysses loosed destruction over Troy. In 1871, Mrs. O'Leary did the same for Chicago with a petulant cow, which shattered an oil lantern in its straw-lined stall. Flames ran amuck, ravaged the straggling town, left it blackened, hollow, crisp. Disconsolate, penniless, young Potter Palmer stood in the ashes of his home. Suddenly, where was Bertha? Bertha had borrowed a buggy, careened into a nearby village, wired New York for an extension of credit. New York agreed, and-phoenix-like-Chicago and the Potter Palmers soared together...
...Connecticut are "all right," and that "the tide has turned!" In Manhattan, betting odds dropped from 5 to 1 against the Derby to 3½ to 1. Prudent, the Candidate rested for a day at Claymont, Del., with Mr. and Mrs. John J. Raskob and eleven children. Then, unbedraggled, crisp and confident, the "bronzer"? trooped buoyantly...
...longer, square-cut face; Brother Bob's face is chubby-round, more like that of his stateswomanly mother, Belle Case LaFollette. It was in his voice, a sharper, stronger, more whip- cracking voice than Brother Bob's. It was in his bodily movements ? quick, alert, crisp; Sculptor Jo Davidson, troubled about the hands of his statue of Old Bob, caught exactly the expression he wanted when Young Phil sat down in the Davidson studio in Paris last summer and gripped the arms of the chair with a single firm movement exactly as Old Bob would have done...