Word: crisp
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Orchard Woodruff of Michigan offered a bill to give the Federal Government jurisdiction over gangster murders resulting from illicit interstate negotiations. He said: "It is repeatedly charged that gunmen from one State are . . . imported into another State to 'put on the spot' . . . rival gangsters." Charles R. Crisp of Georgia introduced an entirely new, voluminous tariff bill...
...there emerges from Hollis only a slight figure covered with a derby and an air of complete detachment. When the day arrives and the raw recruits upsurp the mellow places, the vagabond fears that Copey will visualize with even more complacency his famous headlines: "Hollis a Holocaust, Copey a Crisp...
...opposing teams; or to any one who after the game tries to tell you how each man on the field played, whether he was carrying out his assignments, whether he was getting the best of the man opposite him, how he was blocking, and if his tackling was crisp or just so so. Of course not even the coaches can be expected to see all these things, but you can bet that they know in a general way how their men are doing much better than any one in the stands, with the possible exception...
...from the kitchen in individual orders as the players arrive. As soon as a man has finished one course the waiter is there waiting for him with the next. Toast, when it is on the menu, is made at minute intervals to insure each man receiving it hot and crisp. Hot drinks are served directly from the urns in which they are made, and reach the men steaming...
...Georgia Power Co. has been serving Crisp County and Cordele, Ga., which is located in Crisp County, only since July first of this year. For a period of months prior to that date, the Georgia Power Co. had a connection with the service in Crisp County and Cordele due to the fact that they were served by the South Georgia Power Co. which operated as a subsidiary of the Georgia Power Co. Prior to the time the South Georgia Power Co. became subsidiary of this company, the Georgia Power Co. had no connection in any way, shape or form with...