Word: cravener
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...characterization to his long list with the part of the stately Lord Chancellor. Iolanthe is the fifth Gilbert-&-Sullivan revival by S. M. Chartock's capable company. The Chocolate Soldier. A charming, melodious newcomer named Bernice Claire has just the right, light touch when she bids the comic craven, Bummerli, "Come, come, naught can efface you" in Strauss's appealing "Hero" song. The hero, who would rather eat candy than fight, is alternately Donald Brian or Charles Purcell, the revival's producers...
Martyrs prosper in Irish air. Suddenly the cries were "Up O'Duffy!" "Down with the Broy Harriers!", the latter a play on the name of Dublin Police Chief Broy and a famed Irish pack of fast but craven rabbit hounds. De Valera men countered with tales of the soft life O'Duffy would lead in the Arbour Hill Prison outside Dublin. The Arbour Hill Prison under Minister of Defence Frank Aiken has won the name of "Aiken's Grand Hotel." The General resided in the "Grand barely 48 hours. His lawyers apparently agreed with the State...
...friends, the great semifeudal landlords and industrialists of Rumania, a mass protest by their retainers against the National Peasant Party Government. Last week Dino and his Liberals threatened King Carol: unless he let them form a Government they would fill Bucharest with at least 100,000 protest marchers. Craven, the King yielded, announcing "My people, this step is taken to prevent an outbreak of violence in the capital and its spread throughout Rumania...
...unwillingness to be the last seaman on board a vessel which is patently enreefed, but many will be sorry that the Mercury has come to be such a vessel. Its function, basting the prosperous and needling the Rotarian, is outlived in time when Rotarians are impecunious and craven and the imbecilities of their heyday clotured by depression. The protuberances which the Mercury swatted have largely sunk back into the primeval slime from which they came; and those who liked to see them swatted have turned their minds to other things. But to identify the decline of the Mercury with...
Father Coughlin, who observed in his testimony that "the U. S. is no Jesus Christ," rumbled irrelevantly: "If the U. S. Government is so craven as to rest its case on this testimony, which was given by more or less prejudiced bankers . . . then I am very much afraid that the people of this nation and of Detroit will begin to classify our Government as an Archangel Capone...