Word: nathalia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Victor Campion (The Perennial Bachelor) and Sherwood Anderson's Fred Grey (Dark Laughter) are proclaimed the best recent examples of "that cruel maldevelopment." Childhood's innocence is not scorned. The doctor appraises it warmly in the writings of A. A Milne, Henry James, James Barrie, Daisy Ashford, Nathalia Crane. His sterner brief is simply against those qualities in children which, smothering innocence, are most often carried beyond puberty-meanness, stupidity, intolerance...
...SUNKEN GARDEN-Nathalia Crane-Seltzer ($2). With a poet's precision it is told how, on Nov. 23, 1924, the 16-year-old Duchess of Kendal, later to be known as Orena, was cast upon an Afric isle when her yacht was riven with electric bolts from an oxeye tornado. There she found another "bantling of fate," whose Nordic features suggested that he was an atavism, or at least a primeval anachronism; in any case, a monad. Soon he was able to convince her, however, that he was descended from the Child Crusaders of the 13th century, of noble...
...Crane is, of course, only joking. She will not "do" anything. Didn't she let Mr. Crane give Nathalia a typewriter for Christmas? Didn't she keep rushing to the encyclopedia at Nathalia's command to look up African flora and fauna for this prose opus? Mrs. Crane knows quite well she can "do" nothing about it if Nathalia breaks out again in the next six years. She is perfectly aware that in the girl flows blood, not only from John and Priscilla Alden, but from "the grand old Spanish family, Abarbanel, who counted among their number...
...relationship has been traced between Nathalia and Dr. Frank (Helpful Hints) Crane...
...poet that ever lived delighted in amassing such curious, half-forgotten sounds; not even Francis Thompson had so great a vocabulary of rare and archaic terms. . . . The explanation here is simpler. Nathalia collects words the way a boy of her age collects postage stamps; she had thumbed Noah Webster's work (in various editions) and made a glossary of her own. The dictionary is her playbox and she knows exactly where every odd toy is concealed...