crackajack
Americannoun
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In picking the place, Navy bigwigs showed the sea-wisdom of an old salt, the esthetic sense of a crackajack travel agent.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, old Benjamin, the father, who was located in Framingham somewhere about the year 1716, had twelve children and three of these—Benjamin, Junior, Simon, and Aaron all became crackajack clockmakers, especially Simon.
From Christopher and the Clockmakers by William F. (William Frederick) Stecher
"And he's a crackajack, too," put in Billy.
From Army Boys in France or, From Training Camp to Trenches by Homer Randall
It's going to have a crackajack story in it, of course, but it will have something more than a story.
From The Phantom Herd by B. M. Bower
Ellabelle was a crackajack housekeeper and had plenty of time to lie out in the hammock and read 'Lucile' of afternoons.
From Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
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