Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solemnly of unimportant things. "Bright as a button" well describes her. She is as wholesome as spinach. As for her generation (unless as may be, she is utterly typical), it will be faintly disturbed by writing which for docile triteness resembles nothing so much as one of Dr. Prank Crane's high-school themes. It is to be hoped that the whole book is a gross libel...
...President appeared in his office with his right wrist swollen, bandaged. Cause: undefined and perhaps undefinable*. . . . He watched workmen on the roof of the White House, suddenly retreated eight yards. Cause: a crane dangling lumber above his head. . . . Mrs. Coolidge wore a green scarf. Cause: St. Patrick...
...question was: "How did Judith, the Biblical character, murder General Holofernes ?" And the answer: "Judith murdered General Holofernes by cutting off his head."-ED. *The question was: "Why do nighthawks, thugs, rich idlers and cabaret girls object strenuously to the Rockefeller carillon in New York and to the proposed Crane carillon in Chicago ?" And the correct answer: "Nighthawks, thugs, rich idlers, cabaret girls, etc., object to carillons because the carillons disturb their hard-earned Sunday morning slumbers...
...book.* Before publishing they went calling. They called on President William Allan Neilson of Smith College and on Colyumnist Heywood Broun of the New York World; on Advertiser Bruce Barton and President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale, Sport-Writer W. O. McGeehan and Actress Genevieve Tobin, Dr. Frank Crane and Critic Baird Leonard of Life. At these, in the pairs named, and at other notables, they directed a rushing stream of questions: "What style of writing did the early Babylonians use?" "What is coral? . . . a centaur? . . . a Bunsen burner? . . . the longest bridge in the world?" "How do kangaroos carry...
...bells and nine-pound bells, waking idlers from their Sunday morning sleep. As everyone knows, these are the bells of the largest carillon in the U. S.?John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s gift to the Park Avenue Baptist Church (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925). To Messrs. Rockefeller and Crane, carillons "sing of eternity and fill the earth with gladsome song"; to jaded sleepyheads, they are no better than an early morning coal delivery...