Word: craven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because China has in wily and resourceful Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek a military leader who has set himself up as Dictator, he last week was the elected goat of all Chinese officialdom. Craven President Lin, craven Premier Wang and the whole craven Chinese Central Political Council met in Nanking just before offering champagne toasts to the Japanese Ambassador and solemnly adopted a resolution urging Chinese resistance to the Japanese but stating that they must naturally leave the supreme decision to Generalissimo Chiang who was in Szechwan Province fighting the Communists...
Oxford got the better start. At Craven's Steps, Cambridge, pulling with an easier stroke, was three quarters of a length in front. The Cambridge coxswain, Duckworth, hugged the Surrey bank for smoother water. Close to shore, his shell got better run, led by three lengths at Hammersmith Bridge, half way on the 4¼-mile course. The Oxford coxswain, Bryan, steered smartly toward the Surrey side. For the first time in the race his boat kept up but at Duke's Meadow bend a strong tide-pull stole the gain. At Chiswick, with Oxford nearly four lengths...
...energetically and with biting sarcasm examines critically some of the statements made by Mr. Craven in his book on "Modern Art." "So virulent is the abuse," says Mr. Fry in reference to this work of Craven's, "that it arouses the suspicion that Mr. Craven attempted to paint, and failing, was turned down by the Academy; then, like other failures, he vented his charging by turning art critic and vilifying the Academicians...
...basis for thought in this book. It is biased in one extreme and in many places highly naive and un-objective but the author makes a point that is worthy of attention and it may be more sound than it appears at first. Certainly those who have read Mr. Craven should not neglect the reply...
...entry into the U. S. was delayed by immigration authorities because during a divorce action she had admitted intimacy with the Earl of Craven...