Word: craning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exposition. Miss Clara Nell Lavender, 18, of Jefferson, Ga., had canned 4,976 pints of fruits, vegetables, juices, jams, jellies and pickles, thereby winning 4-H kudos. Declared healthiest 4-H specimens were "four strong boys and two comely girls" (Warren Cales, 18, Sandstone, W. Va.; Richard Crane, 17, Rushville, Ind.; Carlisle Klein, 18, Black River Falls, Wis.; Leslie Warrant, 16, Kasota, Minn.; Ruth Fitzenreiter, 16, Bel, La., and Joann Parks. 15. Liberty, Ind.). An invigorating press release announced that all six drink milk and eat plenty of vegetables, added pointedly that five drink "no coffee" (exception: Joann...
...Crane Brinton '19, associate professor of History and chairman of the Department, has been appointed a Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, the University announced yesterday...
...Young Man's literature." Within the next few years they had introduced to U. S. readers such little known or unknown writers as W. B. Yeats, Ibsen, Maeterlinck, Anatole France, H. G. Wells, Max Beerbohm, Symbolist Poets Verlaine, Mallarme, Rimbaud, as well as the poetry of Stephen Crane, the fiction of Henry James. They published one of the first (and still classic) examples of the new realism, Harold Frederic's The Damnation of Theron Ware. Their designers were (and still are) the best in the country: Bruce Rogers, Updike, Goudy. A little heard-of French painter named Toulouse...
...Aloe Plaza, outside St. Louis' Union Station, a crane last week deposited 19 excelsior-padded, jute-swathed statues on the pavement of a waterless fountain. The bulky packages looked like mummies but were the livelier fragments of a long controversy (TIME, Aug. 9, 1937; June 6, 1938) over nude statues in general, these in particular. They were the figures for famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and the Missouri-known locally as Wedding in a Nudist Colony...
Some of the other houses on Malone's pilgrimage are maintained as shrines, some are not. Joyce Kilmer's, at New Brunswick, N. J., owned by the American Legion, has nary a tree on the place. Stephen Crane's in Newark was being torn down; Malone got it a reprieve until December. Philip Freneau's near Matawan, N. J. is for sale: $35,000 with his grave; $29,000 without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita...