Word: cracking
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...help being encouraged by the Sophomore strength on the squad. Carr lost five valuable regulars last year, and knew he would have to rely a great deal on the crack '43 team of last year. Well, he must be pretty well satisfied for they all have come up to expectations, especially Herskovits, Sawhill and Jack Calhoun. If Al Merck had returned to college there might have been no fullback problem. And according to Jimmy MacDonald, the Freshman coach, this year's crop of Yardlings are doing very well by themselves...
...They put the draft over beautifully and painlessly," he observed, "but now the novacaine is wearing off and opposition is developing. It is probable that after the election the government will crack down on this and all other opposition or criticism...
...Representative Charles Halleck; John Hollister of Cincinnati, ex-law partner of Senator Robert Taft; bumptious ex-Gagman Walter O'Keefe, drape-suited young Lawyer Oren Root Jr. Then Vincent Gengarelly, barber-valet-masseur; Willkie's press-relations man, quick-smiling, 30-year-old Lamoyne Jones, ex-crack police reporter of the New York Herald Tribune, who looks like a juvenile lead...
...Most observers expected the State-by-State Republican vote to be larger than it has been since 1928, although few expected the solid South to crack. Last week Southern-born George A. Sloan, former president of the Cotton-Textile Institute, wrote a letter to Southern editors and friends: "Let your inner conviction on the third term speak and vote for Wendell L. Willkie in the restoration of national unity and spirit...
...White-Haired Boy" has all the car-marks of a good play. Satirizing an author whom the Gallup poll has concluded to be William Saroyan, it's crammed with crack-pot situations that would do justice to "You Can't Take It With You." Only this time it's Mrs. Kaufman along with Charles Martin who are the authors. They say that George sat through the first-night glum as an owl. His wife can make up the situations, but she just doesn't have the lines to go with them. The whole play is strained; at times it gets...