Word: craning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chandelier is 16th century Spanish wrought iron, like the crane supporting the lantern over the front door. Seven thousand Delft tiles bearing pictures of windmills and Dutch barmaids completely cover the walls of the Sanctum Lobby. No two of these are alike, the Poonsters are told. Not all of the relics are imported, however. The walls are littered with drawings by F. G. Attwood, James Montgomery Flagg, Gluyas Williams, Larz Anderson, and other ex-editors. Their carved signatures may be read in the oaken dining table...
...cold," you might say. But not to these hardy fellows. They love it, all four of them--President Bob Betts '44 and charter members Jake Crane 3rd '44, Bill Eiser '44, and Nick (The Spik from Puerto Ric) Fratt...
Students seeking membership are urged to contact Secretary Jake Crane, 3rd at Eliot 2978. If not answered, call Stillman...
...libeling an Ipswich judge in his weekly paper, ≤≤ Charles ("Mickey) Norman, who hit the front pages for his cigar smoking when he was 14 months old, turned ten. "I don't hardly smoke cigars at all any more," he said. "They stink." ≤≤ Nathalia Crane, onetime prodigy poet (The Janitor's Boy, 1924), won a scholarship to enter Fordham's School of Education. Now 28, she wants to be a schoolteacher...
Under existing law, the Army has taken over a locomotive crane, blueprints of a device for converting 1903 rifles into semiautomatics, a number of lathes, a 25-gallon copper still. But nobody was more upset than single-minded Judge Patterson at the outcry that under the "draft property" act the Administration could "take a man's watch or stifle the freedom of the press." Said he in surprise: "No such things were ever contemplated." But when he canvassed for support outside Congress, he ran into the same fear...