Word: cravenly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Whistling in the Dark. Here is a combination of facile playwrighting (by Laurence Gross & Edwards Childs Carpenter), skilled and humorous direction (by Frank Craven) and notably high high-comedy acting (by little Ernest Truex). A sort of mystery play to end all mystery plays, it relates the adventures of a detective fictioneer who unexpectedly becomes embroiled with a gang of criminals. A fabricator of "more drugs for the drug stores," Actor Truex boasts to his burly acquaintances that he knows how to commit the perfect crime. His method is to secrete poison in the victim's toothpaste. Thereupon the criminals...
Deans and professors representing the colleges and universities are: J. P. Adams, Brown; G. P. Bacon, Tufts; F. W. Brown, Bowdoin; H. M. Dadourian, Trinity; A. C. Hanford, Harvard; B. A. Hazeltine, Middlebury; L. A. Howland, Wesleyan; Craven Laycock, Dartmouth; H. P. Little, Clark; T. R. Mather, Boston University; K. B. Murdock, Harvard; C. S. Potter, Amherst; T. C. Smith, Williams; Elijah Swift, Frederick Tupper, Vermont; C. H. Warren, Yale; W. M. Warren, Boston University; F. G. Wren, Tufts...
Somewhat stealthily, as the vote neared, several Deputies stole out. Not one of these craven abstainers was bald. Bald deputies, Madrid noticed, voted almost without exception for votes-for-women. Very young Deputies, dandies with sleek black sideburns, vainly voted in the negative...
Married. Grady L. Boatwright. Secret Service bodyguard to Mrs. Hoover; and a Miss Mabel Craven of Sutton, W. Va.; in Washington; while President & Mrs. Hoover were weekending on the Rapidan...
...unfortunate that young Author Craven, like young Charles Wertenbaker (Boojum!) and others, has chosen to imitate an individualist whose style is as hard to approximate as that of A. E. Housman. Author Hemingway, luring parodists but defying copyists, has perhaps done more to corrupt young U. S. writers than strong drink...