Word: craven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heroism is a salamander virtue. Sometimes fear wakes immortal courage in a craven; avarice will make a miser brave; an infantryman who got the Congressional Medal for taking a machine-gun nest single-handed declared that he sallied out because he was afraid of lightning-a thunderstorm had made him too nervous to stay in his trench. But the 75 U. S. soldiers who, in the Philippines, voluntarily submitted to the bite of the yellow fever mosquito to find out whether this insect also carried dengue fever, had no such excuse. Their story was told last week in the report...
...unlimited classes by all but one entry, account for the fact that there were no final bouts in these classes. The most interesting and exciting bout of the evening was that in which H. R. Wood '27, captain-elect of next year's wrestling team, defeated A. W. Craven 3L. Although the undergraduate wrestler won by a fall in six minutes and 15 seconds, it was only after the hardest kind of a fight. The summary...
...pound class--H. R. Wood '27 took a fall from A. W. Craven...
...First Year. William Fox has made a celluloid comedy out of Frank Craven's brilliant play and done it badly. As you may infer, the plot is about first year married life. Most of it was shrewd character drawing and the small shot of family bickers. These things do not come down well for pictures. Nor were they well interpreted by Matt Moore and Kathryn Perry...
Having run the gamut of Count Craven's listless love, the United States Immigration officials, and Earl Carroll's bathtub parties, the Countess Cathcart could hardly be expected to desert the newspapers for the home. After a silence of almost two weeks she has cast aside her protective veil and issues forth a novelist, full-grown, from Scandal's forehead...