Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown's Body was obviously versifying in the lighter mood of his Ballads & Poems (1931). First of its jingling tunes is sung by a chorus of girls at a quilting bee, where Katrina van Tassel sorrowfully reveals that, although she loves Brom van Brunt, she must marry Ichabod Crane, because in the van Tassel family the eldest daughter must wed a schoolmaster or be carried off by a ghost...
...Riding the air-conditioning boom, Trane Co. (not to be confused with valve-&-bathtub Crane Co.) reported first-half profits before taxes of $227,000, against...
Fred Nygard, an experienced crane operator, related how he joined the union last April. A few days later he took two application cards to work with him in his cap. While mopping his brow, the cards fluttered down 40 ft. from his crane to the floor. One he managed to retrieve but the other was picked up by a fellow worker. Five days later the foreman fired him, saying: "I guess you don't want to work here...
...friend Joe Crane, who runs a parachute school at Roosevelt Field, L. I. went up with him in a plane piloted by Russell T. Thaw, son of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit. In the cockpit Crane held a long rope tied to the ripcord on Fulen-wider's parachute, so if the writer failed to yank the 'chute open after he jumped, Crane could do it for him. At 2,000 feet. Fulenwider climbed out on the plane's wing, got his feet tangled in Crane's rope, jumped before anybody could yell...
Paul W. Cherington; Bayard S. Clark; Eugene V. Clark; Paul C. Clough; Gaston Coblentz; Usher P. Coolidge; Alexander R. Cowper; John E. Crane; Joseph R. Crump; William N. Dale; Vinton A. Dearing; Joseph J. Dodge; Edmund J. Doering, 2d.; James R. Dowd; Herbert M. Dowsett, Jr.; Charles A. Dulles; Charles E. Ennis; John J. Fernsler...