Word: cribbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roll of pictures 13 feet long showing various scenes in the gathering of people to a prize fight. The roll is probably unique and is one of Cruikshank's early works. On display in the same case is a book complete with illustrations of the fight between Crib and Molineux and titled "The Battle" This was done about...
Born. To Alice, six-ton hippopotamus of the Hagenbeck Wallace Circus, a 100 Ib. son. The Menominee (Mich.) boiler works built an iron crib...
Last week, in an oaken crib 52 feet long and weighing ten tons, it arrived in Manhattan on the French liner Paris. It is to be exhibited by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Madison Square Garden, scene of many a prize fight, hockey game, circus, but never before an art-lovers' nook. Later the epic in paint will go on a trip around the world and back to Paris...
...Pittsburgh, one Joseph Shine slept beside Ernestine Shine (his wife), dreaming of strange delights. Mrs. Shine began to toss fretfully. Into his sleep-swollen brain filtered the Shine baby's sobs, "WAAAH! Ugh, ugh, ugh." Cursing, Mr. Shine arose from his slumbers, stumbled to the crib, picked up the child (aged 1), handled it so roughly he broke...
...tiptoe, then, Sir James Matthew Barrie came to the crib in which lay Princess Elizabeth (just one year old on April 21), daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York. Perhaps the baby, with feminine intuition, realized how near she was to Peter Pan. Despatches told that she stirred in her sleep, wakened for an instant and looked sleepy-eyed at the smiling man in thin-rimmed glasses, white stiff collar, and impeccable frock coat who stood, still atiptoe, beside her crib. Then, with a small pink yawn, Her Royal Highness dismissed Sir James...