Word: crabb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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BREAKFAST AT THE HERMITAGE-Alfred Leland Crabb-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.75). In a sentimental novel of post-Civil War Tennessee, Professor Crabb tells how a poor boy became an architect while the Ladies Hermitage Association fought to restore "Old Hickory's" home...
...Robert Crabb, who with his wife and a boy and girl born during their internment were among 3,700 freed at Santo Tomas. He wrote: "Hundreds of us wept unashamed when the Stars & Stripes was run up. . . ." ¶ NBC Correspondent Bert Silen, who began his first broadcast with an inevitable wisecrack: "As I was saying when I was so rudely interrupted over three years and a month...
Progressing to dramatic criticism, Hazlitt stirred up a histrionic storm by suggesting, in the modern vein, that what appealed to Shakespeare's Desdemona most was Othello's dark skin. Cried Critic Henry Crabb Robinson: "A gross attack on the pretensions to chastity in women." As political commentator, Hazlitt was even more savage. He once called the future Duke of Wellington "a weak mind and an able body," King Ferdinand of Spain "a royal marmoset." If he had not written so brilliantly, he might soon have found no editor to publish him. Hazlitt sometimes confused integrity with tactlessness...