Word: krapp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last the clubmates decided that this state of things was unbearable. They got every member to write something on a slip of paper, numbered the slips, sent them, with the letters, to a handwriting expert in Cleveland. He picked out the slip of Mrs. Zenobia Krapp, small, tidy wife of a dairy farmer and onetime president of Sorosis. So did experts in Chicago and New York. Quietly, to spare her feelings, the members called a meeting, suspended Mrs. Krapp from Sorosis...
Though nothing was printed in the Vermilion News, the story, as usual, got around town. By this month it was more than Mrs. Krapp could stand. Flinging gentility to the winds, she filed suit for $10,000 against Mrs. Snyder, Mrs. Roscoe, Mrs. English and the eight other Sorosis members, charging defamation of character. "I've been a good Christian and a good woman all my life," cried Mrs. Zenobia Krapp. "I never wrote those letters...
TROILUS & CRESSIDA - Geoffrey Chaucer; Englished anew by George Philip Krapp-Random House ($3.50). Geoffrey Chaucer (circa 1340-1400), whom posterity has agreed to call a pretty poet, has had his ups & downs. Many a lesser man, making light of Chaucer's archaic English, has tried to re-drape his sturdy uncouthness in modern dress. 17th-century Poet John Dryden ("Chaucer, I confess, is a rough Diamond; and must first be polish'd e'er he shines") was one. Latest is Columbia Professor George Philip Krapp. Partly because new books are scarce around Christmastime, partly because Random House...