Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three or four years, each Bennington girl will reveal her accomplish ments to the faculty through "examinations, theses, or other objective tests." Should she be successful, she will receive as crisp and sightly an A. B. diploma as ever was given at Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Bryn Mawr...
...shoulders rise the second fingers of the right and left hands snap simultaneously from thumb to palm with a crisp double report. * In 1927 he adjusted a six-month dispute between the miners and mineowners of northern France which had threatened to tie up the entire French coal industry...
...corps, veteran of a thousand manicures, husband of a onetime danseuse of the Paris opera. One morning, fortnight ago, his valet patted him into diplomatic uniform, adjusted the cross of the Legion of Honor on his chest, sprayed just the merest squeeze of perfume. His secretary handed him a crisp official envelope blazoned with the eagles of Rumania. His military chauffeur, his gold-frogged footman, his glistening, beak-nosed Renault limousine completed the splendiferous translation of M. Jean Herbette from the French Embassy to the Soviet Foreign Office. There he was angrily awaited by a plump, loosely-clad Russian, genial...