Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...issue of your magazine in your musical column you make a very nasty crack in which you say "as indigestible as Yorkshire pudding...
...Editor, I've eaten in three continents and in 20 different countries and I think I know something about eating. My wife and I were both born in Yorkshire and when you make a crack like that you are treading on very thin...
...Henry Latham Doherty, off to a business career at twelve as an office boy for the Columbus (Ohio) Gas Co., the world of the eighties was an oyster and he held the shucking knife. By the turn of the century he was a crack western public utility man, and by the time he moved into Manhattan at 35 to set up Henry L. Doherty & Co. (utilities investments) he was a millionaire and had feathered his chin with a goatish beard to impress Wall Streeters. The beard failed to work, and Mr. Doherty had to borrow money in Europe until Wall...
...MYSTERY BOOK-Anthony Abbot, Leslie Ford, David Frome, Mary Roberts Rinehart & Rex Stout-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Four novelettes, one full-length novel-all good-by five crack mystery mongers...
WHAT NIGHT WILL BRING-Hilea Bailey-Crime Club ($2). An arthritic private investigator and his pretty daughter crack a case involving murders and theft of campaign ideas in a big Midwest ad agency. Some readers may be irked by the highly colored agency background, but the plot is credible, the humor pleasant, the atmosphere creepy...