Word: croppers
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...said in a pathetic attempt at enthusiasm that the Åndalsnes reembarkation was carried out "without losing a single man." If it was so carried out it was technical operation that military men will admire, but that did not alter the fact that the expedition had come a shocking cropper...
...James last week went into the slot-machine business, reviving memories of his father's cropper in a kindred enterprise...
...this difference in arenas that caused the Crimson to come a cropper last Saturday, and Major Sargent, coach of the pole team for the past three years, is confident that on the home floor the Harvard team will give a different account of itself. The lineup Saturday will probably pit Gay Dillingham, Winny White, and either Tommy Higginson or Jack Lewis against Alan Corey, Billy Chisholm, and Dava Wilhelm. As a question of individual supremacy between Dillingham and Corey the match should be interesting enough in itself...
...lower East Side, on his way to school used to lug to a sweatshop the bundles of piecework sewing his mother did at home. Later he worked in a clothing store at $5 a week, took night art classes till he got his job on the Tribune. In Cropper's phrase he "fired the Tribune" after his I. W. W. conversion, became successively a labor organizer, oiler on a freight boat, itinerant sign painter...
...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...