Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Indorsed by the Bible, Shakespeare and Dr. Frank Crane. 'The poor ye have always with you.' Under auspices of the best newspapers, cashing in on the Christmas spirit. New thrills this year, unique displays, incredible suffering and destitution, old-fashioned slums, widows and orphans, homeless babies and centenarians, everything. This way for the 'thrill of giving,' the 'pleasure and satisfaction' of charity (New York Times editorial). Good for jaded nerves and appetites; the best tonic for your conscience; a help in digesting your Christmas dinner...
...SINGING CROW-Nathalia Crane-A. & C. Boni ($2). A dreadful eventuality has not yet come to pass-the growing up of Miss Nathalia Crane. Her songs are still those of a little Brooklyn girl for whom hydrants must be gnomes and subway trains coffin worms. Nor has anyone yet dismally and satisfactorily explained the marvelous process by which a slender chit-she is only 13 now- became possessed of the divine afflatus, plus a vocabulary that would give nightmares to a lexicographer...
Newspaper headlines, ferryboat rides, a visit to her photographer's studio, the radio craze, furnish young Miss Crane with themes for her quaint, circumloquacious cadenzas. She puts pinions on tortoises and sapphires in the eyes of moles. She writes a "Ballad of Valley Forge," and a fine ballad it is, to the tune of "The Eagles They Fly High in Mobile, in Mobile" (or "Drink Her Down"). And sometimes she contemplates the purely inane, just for fun- The ritual and the microtome...
...social activities nothing smoother was ever evolved, was to be the first lecturer in a course on present-day fashions in the fine arts department of New York University, a course sponsored by Manhattan society matrons including Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. Reginald de Koven, Mrs. Murray Crane, and having for its classroom, at fashionable three o'clock on Thursdays, the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Editress Edna Woolman Chase and Miss Caroline Duer of the Vogue staff were announced as assistant lecturers, making it clearer than ever that of all fashion publications, the Nastian...
...York theatre, bobbed hair, rebellious undergraduates, one piece bathing suits, Beacon Bill on Christmas Eve, and the Marx brothers. And examination of the liabilities reveals the national crimes as including the movies, the radio, various initialed abominations--S. E. P., K. K., K. Y. M. C. A., Frank Crane, bridge, the Stock Exchange and the Stock Yards. Mr. Herbert Hoover is apparently both a credit and a liability and is therefore cancelled...