Word: craven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Berlin, last May, with two Adler cars, four mechanics and Herr Soederstroem. By way of the Balkans, Turkey, Persia and the Caucasus they drove to Moscow and thence to Irkutsk, Siberia, where the four mechanics refused to press on and returned by rail to Berlin. Not thus craven was Herr Soederstroem. He stuck with Fraulein Stinnes at Irkutsk for almost three months, while they waited for Lake Baikal to freeze, then drove across and on to Mongolia, China, Japan and the President McKinley...
...Indian visited the Half-Moon above Manhattan, how the Indian stole a shirt out of the mate's cabin, and how the mate shot him dead as he was paddling across the silent river valley, back to shore. The sea, the polar bears, the casual, surly, craven sailors of Hudson's crew, the companies who in England planned the hazardous voyages that their captains undertook, the acquittal which an English court allowed the mutineers who had marooned their captain,-none of these things escaped the attention of Author Powys. He writes about them with his customary precision...
...members of the University golf team have been given a special invitation by Frank Craven to attend the Monday night performance of "The 19th Hole", which is being given at the Hollis Theatre this week and next...
...member of the team who played last year and would like to attend the performance as Craven's guest will please call for tickets at the office of the CRIMSON tonight between the hours of 6 and 10 o'clock...
...Tragedy has no appeal to me, comedy is my trade, and I intend to stick to that form of drama", asserted Frank Craven, 'who is playing in. "The 19th Hole" at the Hollis Theatre. "I have tried Shakespearean tragedies, and must say that I am not inclined toward them...