Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then there is the witchery which the polished buttons, the gold braid, the snug capes, cast over even the most surfeited debutante; fortunately those crisp commands prevent a military encounter under the chandeliers of the Copley. Last there is the rumor, the vague suspicion, that the librettist who conceived "In the Army there's sobriety, promotion's very slow," was nearly half right...
...preparing grubbing, grubbing, grubbing students with the elements of an education with which to fashion life. But with the Cadets comes a romance more real, more vital, than the round of artificial pleasures offered by the Somerset, Beacon Hill, and the Brattles. The trim uniforms, the electric response to crisp commands, the venerable joke about the mule, these combine to give a sense of purpose, a promise of a definite future, which makes the academic student, preparing himself for a dim and uncertain path, wonder...
...Florida has Sonny Boy, Two Egg, Coon and Sisters Welcome; North Carolina has Hog Quarter, Maiden and Red Bug; Virginia has Ego, All, Swallow Well and Topnot; Arkansas has Smackover, Self Sodom, Greasy Corners and Hog Scald; Louisiana has Blank, Wham and Uncle Sam; Georgia has Ty Ty, Crisp, Bacon and New York...
...withered nor marriage staled the crisp, brainy golf of Glenna Collett. But this was Van Wie day. Men's par over the short, tricky Salem Country Club course is 72. In the morning Virginia Van Wie shot a 73, putting Mrs. Vare's perfectly respectable 83 eight down. In the afternoon at the 22nd Miss Van Wie sank an eagle 3. At the 27th Mrs. Vare was still nine down. At the 28th, when Mrs. Vare's chip stopped ten feet short and she missed the putt, she conceded Miss Van Wie two putts from four-feet for hole, match...
...toast civilizations to a crisp. He tortures the scientist and his family to learn the secret of its operation. Chandu monotonously rescues them from his clutches to which they monotonously return. Using his knack of turning rifles into snakes, turning gold pieces into toads, stiffening ropes upright in air, passing through solid walls, getting out of coffins at the bottom of the Nile, and abrogating strict Yoga discipline long enough to fall in love with an Egyptian princess, Chandu should reasonably have solved the situation and ended the picture in three minutes. The origin of his power is given...