Word: ravenously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week all undergraduates at England's Cambridge University got a stiff, stern letter from Vice Chancellor Charles E. Raven. It concerned their behavior on Guy Fawkes Day, on the 342nd anniversary of Fawkes's unsuccessful attempt to blow up the House of Lords...
...Farran did not die. He fought with the maquis in France and with a group of girl partisans in Italy. Later, he described his adventures with almost boyish enthusiasm ("One girl in particular will always remain in my memory . . . She was a tall, raven-haired girl with Irish blue eyes . . . as brave and dangerous as a tigress and was completely devoted to the British company . . ."). He felt lost when peace came. "I always expected to be killed in battle," he said. "Now I was left stranded, spared by some odd trick of fate...
...takes the reader on a dizzy, profitless tour of American poetic history. Most readers will prefer to skip Rodman's off-the-hip grading of American poets and go directly to their work. On the whole, his selections are very good. He has omitted such chestnuts as The Raven and 0 Captain! My Captain! and included less well-known poems. The book is spiced by anonymous folk verse, including The Whore on the Snow-Crust, a frank 18th Century New England broadside in defense of bundling. For a quarter, a good...
What are the wild waves saying? For one thing, they may be warning of a storm 5,000 miles away. Last week Britain's Dr. George Edward Raven Deacon told a symposium at the New York Academy of Sciences how he makes waves spill their secrets...
Because he made films for a German-controlled company, Director Clouzot was forbidden to work for two years after the liberation; then he made Quai des Orfevres (Jenny Lamour) which is just as unflattering to the French as The Raven, and just as popular-with Frenchmen. Author Chavance says stoutly of his Raicn: "It is no more anti-French than Chicago gangster pictures are anti-American...