Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this important? Well, many years ago "Home Run" Baker amassed the astounding total of twelve circuit clouts in a season. They cheered him and his blows. That was then. Last season fans who got up at the crack of a homer only did so because they ran out of peanuts and wanted attention for more, and bush league hitters suffered painful gastronomic ailments from trying to keep up with a breakfast food company which offered, a case of wunchy-munchies for every round-tripper...
Listeners to CBS's Columbia Workshop program heard all this about Curley last month in a bit of fast-moving whimsey, full of good sound effects, called My Client Curley. Variety actually headlined: 'CURLEY THE CATERPILLAR' CLICKO. Norman Corwin, crack Workshop author-director, had adapted the play from a short story by a onetime CBS publicity writer, Lucille Fletcher, 28, Vassar graduate, Phi Beta Kappa and Daisy Chain girl. So pronounced was audience reaction that Curley was put on the air again last week. Cinema studios and children's book publishers are now angling for Curley...
...occasional "It's a lousy day in Chicago"; school authorities to his occasional stormy-weather advice to mothers: "I wouldn't send the kids to school today. . . . Missing one day of school won't hurt 'em." Patriots stormed at his Washington's Birthday crack: "He never told a lie. And look where he is now." The bloomer people hit the ceiling last year when they found out his nonsensical "N.P. B.C. girls club" meant No Panties Before Christmas. But once when Chicago & North Western flagged him down, 2,800 protesting letters promptly restored...
...Sept. 24, 1938 several Soviet air women took off from Moscow with Miss Raskova as their navigator, made a beeline of 3,715 miles to crack up in wild Kerbi swamplands for a new international women's distance record. On urgent orders from Moscow 50 planes and large Soviet land forces searched nine days for the aviatrixes. Afterwards Miss Raskova recalled that she subsisted on wild berries. Later Dictator Stalin, officially welcoming the distance fliers to the Kremlin, sternly observed that more care must be taken not to risk the lives of such heroic women as Miss Raskova...
Moralists liked to recall after his disgrace the unhealthy tendencies Oscar already showed at Oxford-his sermon-inspiring crack: "Would that I could live up to my blue china;" his incense-burning and precious bric-a-brac, decadent paintings, rhapsodies in verse to Actress Lily Langtry, his declaration that "I want to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world." What was less frequently recalled was that he was the pet of Slade Professor John Ruskin and of the great Walter Pater, who was once so overcome by his protege's beautiful talk...