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Newspaper headlines, ferryboat rides, a visit to her photographer's studio, the radio craze, furnish young Miss Crane with themes for her quaint, circumloquacious cadenzas. She puts pinions on tortoises and sapphires in the eyes of moles. She writes a "Ballad of Valley Forge," and a fine ballad it is, to the tune of "The Eagles They Fly High in Mobile, in Mobile" (or "Drink Her Down"). And sometimes she contemplates the purely inane, just for fun- The ritual and the microtome...
...Debussy moon . . . "List, sweet Moon," Ruth said, "where I learned my loving . . ." Ruth was an amateur of the living moment; she could quote poetry, swear tenderly. The eventualities aboard their pirate-schooner, the Mary Read, on Chesapeake bay; their chicken-stealing, arrest, abduction of a judge, capture of a ferryboat, and highly improbable treasure hunt, are matters for the thrice-fortunate reader to follow alone. The Significance being, simply, that the commonplace has suddenly, with sublime and innocent vulgarity, comic pedantry, unflagging ebullience, gone stark, raving romantic. Here is one book, at least, for which Autumn, 1926, is destined...
Died. Douglas Boyd, 67, ferryboat engineer who had crossed the Hudson river 400,000 times in 38 years of service; at Beacon, N. Y., of blood poisoning...
Welcome. The Swedish Minister at Washington, the U. S. Minister to Sweden and J. Butler Wright of the State Department took the visitors on a city ferryboat. Governor's Island fired 21 guns. The municipal fireboat sent eight streams of water high in the air. At the Battery a guard of Marines escorted the party to the City Hall. Mayor Walker made a speech. The Crown Prince made a speech?quite professionally?into the radio microphone?departed for Washington...
...time. Per contra, he once jumped from his bed in the middle of the night, intent on performing a newly conceived experiment, rushed to the Neva (on the other side of which stood his father's laboratory), plunged in and swam across. "I could not wait. The ferryboat was delayed," said...