Word: cravener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston for selling the issue of his American Mercury that contained the story of a casual prostitute called Hatrack (she took her customers to cemeteries*), Mencken retained Hays. When the Countess Cathcart was denied entry to the U.S. because she had had an affair with the Earl of Craven (the Earl was admitted without a fuss), Hays was at her side. In his autobiography, City Lawyer, Hays recalls that when the Countess was brought before a deportation board of inquiry, she asked: "But haven't you men ever committed adultery?" The board, Hays reported, replied almost in chorus: "Madam...
...shapely dish can stir up his belief in "tart for tart's sake." As a brigadier, he wears a monocle, but is intelligent enough to look at the world with both eyes open. His nemesis takes the repulsive form of Claude Hermiston, a bully, a cad and a craven. It is Strang's destiny to be deviled by Hermiston in school, on dates, in the army, and even in his marriage. On the front in 1917, Hermiston tricks Strang into being tried-for cowardice, and it takes Strang another war to prove his courage. When he finally does...
...gruff voice should provide the play with a comic touch. Sir William is indeed pompous, and since Sullivan has a cold his voice is even gruffer than usual, but the playgoer may wait all evening without hearing him speak a genuinely clever line. As the suspect Leonard Vole, Robert Craven creates a peculiarly obnoxious hero, not from bad acting as one might first suspect, but because Agatha Christic has made him so. The witness for the prosecution is Patricia Jessel, as Romaine. She should be commended for bringing some restraint to a part which calls for a mysterious woman with...
...Socialists made their lonely way to the other lobby to vote no; the rest of the Laborites kept their places. Attlee sat slumped on the front bench, doodling and looking unhappy. He had prevented a larger rebellion in Labor's ranks, but had left his party in the craven position of refusing to vote for agreements it had publicly supported...
Manhattan's 66th National Horse Show grew most exciting when a U.S. Army jeep toted jumps and fences into the ring and pink-coated Honey Craven, ringmaster, blew a fanfare on his long, thin trumpet. The stable owners in evening clothes, the teen-age girls who had come to show off their saddle horses, the grooms along the ringside, now all waited tensely for the real stars: the jumpers. About to begin as the competition for the President of Mexico Trophy, toughest of the international jumping events...