Word: craned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to a despatch from Prague, capital of Czecho-Slovakia, the President's son has asked Mrs. Robert Leatherbee,† 'daughter of Charles Richard Crane, onetime millionaire-President of the Crane Valve Company. No official announcement was made; that is to come later at Vary Karlovy (Karlsbad) at a reception to be given by the President...
...Holland. Fifty Americans were guests of the University of Leyden during a special "Netherlands Week for American Students." Distinguished Dutch scholars lectured in English. Among the guests: Dr. and Mrs. Frank Crane (famed Moralizer), Dr. and Mrs. Harry Pratt Judson (onetime President of the University of Chicago), American students from Oxford and Cambridge...
...Author. Thomas Beer, born in 1889 at Council Bluffs, Iowa, and graduated from Yale College and Colum bia Law School, has been by turns lawyer's clerk, field-artilleryman, magazine contributor. Among his novels: The Fair Rewards, Stephen Crane...
...Verner W. Crane, Brown...
...unprejudiced observer wishes nothing but success to Miss Crane, and to any others of a like age who are planning an early career of letters; but it is only right, though possibly unkind, to point out the ominous fact that most early-blossoming geniuses come to a swift and untimely end. The field of music contains the few exceptions. The annals of neo-literature are crowded with the names and obituaries of those whose divine flame turned out to be a flash in the pan. Miss Crane should consider the sad case of Daisy Ashford, and lose no time...