Word: cravenness
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...organ, then the band again, played & played. Suddenly, in the merciless heat, the Klieg lights flicked on, like a mammoth oven's heat being turned up. The crowd whinnied, groaned and sat fanning languidly, gulping more & more cokes. As the clock reached nine, a tall, grey man, Carl Craven, director of the Chicago Light Opera Company, tried to lash the wilting crowd into singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...Southampton, L.I., Anne was in her element. She wore a short white dress, drove a blue car with red wheels, went to all the parties, sang, danced, shivered at the thought of growing old, and struggled with the great problem of her life: should she marry Paul Craven...
...Southampton beachhead. Readers are likely to forget the long talks about politics. They will remember Anne's shock at seeing Marco at her best friend's wedding, the families crowding together in poverty after the suicides and heart failures of the crash. When rich Uncle Bruce Craven went broke, and was charged with having stolen $6,500,000, Marco was the lawyer on the other side. When Uncle Bruce asked his friends how his trial was going, somebody handed him a package. It contained a revolver and a note: "This is the gun that Albert used...
...June 6, 1944, for the young men in battle, for the patriots, the craven, the ordinary millions of Occupied Europe, for people everywhere, the military news was personal. Aloud or in their hearts, plain men were not ashamed to say with General Eisenhower in his Order of the Day to his men: "Good luck, and may the blessing of God go with...
...Velazquez' early, almost photographic genre pictures done in his precourt days when Velazquez used to brag: "I would rather be the first of the vulgar painters than the second of the refined ones." In strong contrast are a number of the passionless religious paintings of which Critic Thomas Craven once said: ". . . the only worthless things he ever...