Word: croppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...talkingest of them all was Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who, having given a full explanation of how Royal Oak came its cropper (see p. 20), held a pep session on BBC. It contained easily the week's liveliest name-calling...
Three days later, stunting for more points, he too came a cropper. In a spectacular spinning dive, his left wing snapped off. He tossed back the cowl covers, tried to wriggle out of the cockpit. Centrifugal motion held him fast. Finally leaning far out over the nose, he grasped a metal indicator, wrenched himself free, parachuted into a birch tree...
...full-page advertisement in the London Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, was the latest manifestation of a religious eccentricity which has mildly amused the Church of England for 150 years. Joanna Southcott (1750-1814) was a pious British servant woman who, like many another simple mind, came a cropper in the mysteries of the Book of Revelation...
...beauty, but so tightly packed was the field at the first jump that three horses went down for keeps. At the fifth jump Royal Mail faltered, and Under Bid flashed out in front. Into Becher's Brook (socalled because 100 years ago a Captain Becher came a cropper and dived under its surface in fear of the flying hoofs above him) the great Royal Danieli fell, dunking most of England's shilling bets...
...painted a simple little picture of a snowy square and a lady hailing a streetcar (see cut) which perfectly evoked an atmosphere, mood and period. Then he selected a lighter palette, and from about 1913 on, Renoir became the dominant influence in his work. Many artists have come a cropper under that influence. Glackens succeeded...