Word: craned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FRANK CRANE, 66, Manhattan; onetime Methodist Episcopal clergyman, long a journalist...
Hundreds of passersby, stopping to crane their necks backward at Mr. Kelly, loitered a moment longer to argue with one another whether or not he is a hero. Some went home and read from Webster's Dictionary: "Hero ... a person of distinguished ... fortitude in suffering. . . ." That seemed to cover Marathon Rooster Kelly...
...effort] made to amuse readers of TIME'S issue of May 16, by publishing the misspelt letter of Mr. C. R. Crane of Wagoner, Okla., a farmer and flood victim, same being a cancellation of his subscription to TIME and so irrelevant to readers...
...Your action was mean and lacking in sportsmanship. You owe Mr. Crane an apology...
TIME prints letters just as they are received, does not "doctor" them (except to omit those portions which are irrelevant, prolix), does not respell them. The sincerity of Farmer Crane's letter spoke for itself-spoke far more eloquently than could fine phrases, fancy spellings...