Word: craned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prize contest conducted so as to determine who had written the best poem about Lindbergh. The three prizewinning poems, and the 97 next best now appear in a book: The Spirit of St. Louis. Five hundred dollars, the first prize, was very appropriately awarded to child-prodigy Nathalia Crane. She expressed 14-year old enthusiasm in a thoroughly competent narrative poem, The Wings of Lead, pointing, in lines that have a bright startling thread of childish ingenuity drawn through them, to ". . . The beauty of a courage that can raise the wings of lead." Second prize went to Poet Thomas Hornsby...
Died. Professor Emeritus Thomas Frederick ("Teefy") Crane, 83, who had been associated with Cornell University since 1868; at Deland, Fla. Undergraduates & alumni have chanted songs about "Teefy," and at each commencement hundreds of his former pupils have grasped his hand. Some years after his retirement, he delivered a rousing 45-minute midnight address before an alumni reunion. For two brief periods he was Acting President of Cornell...
...White & Blue, the hue all thoroughgoing U. S. citizens should logically be, includes such personages as Mayor William Hale Thompson, American Legion Commander Edward Elwell Spafford, Mrs. Ella Boole, John Roach Straton, Billy Sunday, Dr. Frank Crane, Elks, Grotto, Rotary, Lions. Moose...
Justice Frederick E. Crane of the New York Court of Appeals elaborated the view that punishment of criminals should take the form of compulsory restitution to society of whatever the criminals have taken from society. "When a man has killed another, why should the widow be left to starve when this man, under the law, might be compelled to provide a living...
Spontaneous rejoicing burst forth, however, when it was announced that a crane had been seen to flap sedately three times around the Imperial Palace: a man-symbol, according to Japanese...