Kennicott observed, There's that old crank Wes Brannigan shooting off his mouth again.

At one twenty-nine that afternoon I started for the " old crank's" store.

Top-ropers just waiting for an old crank to smoke them.

Oh, he's a honey, he is-thedried up old crank.

Lives with her father, an old crank of an analytical chemist over in Jersey City.

If he had been, he would never have stayed with that old crank Judge Hollis.

Henry, my twenty-nine-year- old crank of a roommate, has decided very recently that he hates me.

Why, at one point we even had an old crank phonograph going and read some books.

But it served the old crank right.

And then they missed that old crank.

Only to that old crank Miss Brant.

I think by that time they had Faulkner pretty well sized up as an irascible old crank.

Bedad, loving him as I do, I can't help saying that Curtis is a bally old crank.

Before I left the town of the " old crank" I met with another of his peculiarities.

I am a happy old crank.

For the many years I went to the town of the " old crank," our relationship was most cordial.