Word: craning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...funny if you are an aquatic bird (duck, heron, egret, gallinule, spoonbill, ibis, bittern crane) and, having flown down to Florida for the winter, find your favorite lagoon drained dry. You have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling...
Died. Sam Crane, 71, famed baseball writer, once "the greatest second baseman of the major leagues" ; in Manhattan, of pneumonia contracted while accompanying the Giants on their western trip. For many years he wrote of baseball for the New York Evening Journal and was famed for the gravity with which he handled...
...Crane...
...Winsted, Conn., famed as a home of strange events, one Charles Alling beheld a large crane caught by the foot in a wire fence, went to save the pitiable fowl. The crane drove his beak into Alling's left eye, ", permanently blinded...
...fence crane...