Word: craned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Barrie, here perverted into a casual Ibsen. He makes a pretty world for himself out of nice books and brotherly love, ruling out the flesh and the devil. His hero is a young man who is both those Siamese twins of psychology, Dr. Coue and Dr. Frank Crane. The idealist returns from a year in Paris to his village and, finding his fiancee the wretched wife of a doltish sergeant, fulfills his philosophy by helping them to untangle the kinks in their jarring nervous systems...
...MacCubbin, Chairman, Miss Madeline Barrett; D. B. Bianchi, Miss Florence Phillips; M. A. Cheek, Miss Fannie MacCubbin; P. G. Kirk, Miss May Mosher: K. A. Henderson, Miss Dorothy Blodgett; R. N. Schacht, Miss Barbara Crane; C. W. Johnson, Miss Daisy Hitch; H. J. Williams, Miss Sarah Powell; W. M. Powell, Miss Caroline Curtis: Robert Blaney, Miss Georgia White; G. B. Cramer, Miss Helen Coolidge; D. A. MacKinnon, Miss Olga Frethingham...
...training." It has always been thought that environment and training are important, but it has also been suspected that if a child's father was a moron and his mother an imbecile, the chances were strongly against his becoming a Plato, a Carlyle, or even a Dr. Frank Crane. It is reassuring to have Professor Watson's statement that every new-born babe starts life with an equal endowment of nothing...
...were at What Price Glory? and Mr. Paine was finding it moving and tender and humorous, as who does not? We talked of writing, and the friend and biographer of Samuel Clemens proved tolerant, interested in new things, pleased to reminisce of the old. Did he remember Stephen Crane? Indeed he did; in fact, he had reread The Red Badge of Courage within the last month. He remembered Stephen in the days of The Lantern, a literary club in the downtown regions, where Crane and others congregated-Crane pale, nervous, always a good fellow...
Married. Jan Masaryk, son of Thomas G. Masaryk (CzechoSlovakian President) and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Czecho-Slovakian Republic, to Mrs. Frances Crane Leatherbee, daughter of Charles C. Crane, onetime (1920-21) U. S. Minister to China; in Manhattan...