Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crane, Mo., mourners held up a funeral procession when they saw beads of sweat on the unembalmed corpse's forehead. A physician applied restoratives vainly, finally pronounced Mrs. Archie Dunnegan dead a second time. The funeral continued...
...field for another score. The fifth Harvard touchdown came when Horween's team recovered a fumbled punt on the Freshman 40-yard line, and scored after a series of short gains. Batchelder's runs were the feature of the Harvard onslaught, while for the first year men Crane, former Andover captain, at center, was the heart of the defense. The final score was made by Leonard on a lateral from Putnam, a touchdown that made the concluding score...
...government regulation under which I work refers to a relative by marriage. In your opinion would my wife's sister's husband be a relative by marriage? In July 7 issue, p. 49, in speaking of R. T. Crane's relationship to J. M. Patterson it is implied that you do not consider the two men relatives...
Garland met most of the big literary men of his day, liked most of them. William Dean Howells was his close friend. James A. Herne, actor-author of onetime famed play, Shore Acres, was another. Garland was one of the discoverers of Stephen Crane; he admired Crane's genius, deprecated his habits, gave him many an ill-received lecture. He venerated Walt Whitman and was indignant at the squalor of his Camden surroundings. Mark Twain, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, John Burroughs, Edward MacDowell, James M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Bernard Shaw, Israel Zangwill, Henry James ?he knew them...
Centers: W. Casey, F. Crane, R. Frazier, A. Koch, Jr., J. Lockwood, L. McCabe, C. Ware...