Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Downing's first crack at a guard job, although he has played every other position on the line except center. In prep school and as a Freshman he was at tackle; he was an end his Sophomore year and a tackle his Junior year. This fall he was an end up until yesterday afternoon...
...Barrage is quite beautiful. We have had such incomparable weather since the war started that every day we can see these "silver fish" swimming into the clouds: because as the clouds approach -a thing you are not normally conscious of - these balloons appear to swim into them. The latest crack, which I expect you already know, is about the dear old lady who said "The Germans can't frighten me, sitting up there in those balloons." . . . The most succulent rumor I heard the other day was that seven U-boats had given themselves up and were landed...
...talents, bends over backward to praise his teammates. After he scored all 27 points in the Iowa game three weeks ago, he said: "Anybody could have done it with that Evashevski [200-pounder who once said he didn't want to-play football if he couldn't "crack 'em"] and those others in there blocking like that. They don't make them any better than that Evashevski...
...sartorial bankruptcy that ensues when a female Bolshevik is exposed to the bourgeois perils of running water, Melvyn Douglas and Paris. Unlike most pictures about Russian Reds, this one is neither crude clowning nor crude prejudice, but a literate and knowingly directed satire which lands many a shrewd crack about phony Five Year Plans, collective farms, Communist jargon and pseudo-scientific gab where it will do the most good-on the funny bone...
From Father Coughlin's critics the cry continues: Why doesn't the Catholic Church crack down on him? The answer is obvious. The Church's ranking leaders undeniably distrust and disapprove of the radio priest, but doing something about him might leave them with a schism on their hands. But what the Church will not do, the U. S. radio industry has attempted. The new National Association of Broadcasters code, if enforced by the 51 stations constituting Father Coughlin's pickup chain, would effectively bar him from the air as a lone-ranging controversialist. One station...