Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incident. It somehow caught the newspapermen's fancy. Clippings have come from all over, indicating country-wide use, and worse and worse falsification of the story. It has been irritating. You understand it is not my desire to flee from the wrath of the various sentimentalists whose crank letters have come to me complaining of "cruelty," etc. But it is because the whole thing as far as our institution is concerned, is untrue...
...revealed by the Society. Numerous college cases have come before them in the past few months. These cases usually have to do with petty bills and telephone company misunderstandings. The most frequent cases from those people outside of the University are those to do with the installment collectors. The crank who continually takes his smallest troubles to "law" is the most frequent visitor to the free legal service bureau...
Another section of the laboratory will be used for demonstrating vibration phenomena as they occur in machinery and in buildings. One machine is to be used for studying the effect of damping torsional vibrations in the crank shafts of reciprocating engines of industrial machinery...
...Curtis, a builder of small boats, said that a onetime rumrunner had come to him on March 9 as go-between for the Lindbergh baby-snatchers. Mr. Curtis spent two fruitless days trying to get in touch with Col. Lindbergh, whose house is still flooded by several bags of crank mail daily and constant telephone calls. Having failed to get in touch with the lost child's parents, Mr. Curtis sought out two fellow-townsmen connected with the family: Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock. pastor of the largest Episcopal congregation in the South who used to know the Morrows when...
...While crank letters poured into the Lindbergh home by the hundreds, all of which proved inconclusive, there were several tangible pieces of evidence connected with the crime...