Cox (KENYON an American painter)
KENYON, an American painter; born in Warren, O., Oct. 27, 1856. He studied in Paris under Duran and Gerome, settling in New York in 1883 as a portrait and figure artist. He was a member of the So Society of American Artists. He was especially noted for his mural paintings. Notable examples are "Art and Science," Congressional Library; "Progress of Civilization," State House, Des Moines, Ia.; "Beneficence of Law," County Court House, Newark, N. J., etc. Among his pictures may be mentioned "Hope and Memory," Cox collection, Cleveland, O.; "Harp Player," Metropolitan Museum, New York. His portrait of St. Gaudens received a medal at the Paris Salon. He died on March 17, 1919.
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Cox (PALMER a Canadian author)
PALMER, a Canadian author and illustrator. He was born at Granby, Quebec, in 1840, and was educated at Granby Academy. In 1863 he went to California, engaging in railroading, contracting, etc., and writing for newspapers. He arrived in New York in 1875, and took up writing and illustrating for children's magazines and humorous books. His works include: "Squibs of California," "Hans Von Pelter's Trip to Gotham," "How Colum- "The Brownies, Their Book," "Brownies at Home"; "Brownies," a sp spectacular play in three acts; "The Brownies in Fairyland," a musical cantata; "Brownie Primer," etc.
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Cozumel
an island in the Caribbean Sea, off the coast of Yucatan.
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Crab
a name given to various machines, especially to a kind of portable windlass or machine for raising weights. Crabs are much used in building operations for raising stones and many other weights, and in loading and discharging vessels.
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Crab
a popular name for all the 10footed, short-tailed crustaceans constituting the sub-order Brachyura, order Decapoda, comprising many genera, distinguished from the lobster and other macrurous or long-tailed decapods by the shortness of their tail, which is folded under the body. The mouth has several COYOTE pairs of strong jaws, in addition to which the stomach has its internal surface studded with hard projections for the purpose of grinding the food. The stomach is popularly called the "sandbag"; g"; a little behind it is the heart, which propels a colorless lymph (the bus Found America," "That Stanley," blood) to the gills ("dead man's fingers"). The liver is the soft, rich yellow substance, usually called the fat of the crab. They "moult" or throw off their calcareous covering periodically. The first pair of limbs are not used for locomotion, but are furnished with strong claws or pincers. Their eyes are compound, with hexagonal facets, and are pedunculated, elongated, and movable. Like most individuals of the class, they easily lose their claws, which are as readily renewed. The racer-crabs of the West Indies suck the juice of the sugarcane. Most inhabit the sea, others fresh water, some the land, only going to the sea to spawn. The common large edible crab (Cancer pagurus) is much sought after.
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Crab
A portable crane or winch, with gear-wheel on the barrel-shaft, in which a pinion is made to work by means of cranks at each end of the pinion-shaft. See CRAB; CRANE.
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Crab Apple
a small, wild, very sour species of apple, from which a fine jelly is made.
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Crabb
GEORGE, an English lawyer and writer; born in Palgrave, Suffolk, Dec. 8, 1778; best known as the author of a "Dictionary of English Synonyms," published in 1816. He died near London, Dec. 4, 1851.
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Craddock
Charles Egbert, the penname of Miss Mary Noailles Murfree, an American novelist. See Murfree ; Mary Noailles
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Cradle
or "rocker," a mechanical contrivance used in placer mining, consisting of a box on rockers and moved by hand, used for washing out the goldbearing soil. B B. Blue Crab.
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Crafts
WILBUR FISK, an American clergyman and publicist, born in Wesleyan University in 1869 and was ordained a Methodist clergyman in 1867. In 1880 he joined the Congregational Church, and in 1883 the Presbyterian, serving in pastorates in several churches in New England, Chicago, Brooklyn, and New York. Always having been active in Sunday School work, he founded, in 1889, the American Sabbath He lectured throughout the Union. United States as field secretary of this organization, and in 1895 founded and ndent of the International was superintendent Reform Bureau. He made many journeys to Europe and to the Orient, lecturing on religious subjects. His writings include "The Ideal Sunday School" (1876), "Successful Men of To-day" (1883), "Practical Christian Sociology" (1895), "Patriotic Studies" (1906), "Prohibition Handbook" (1911), and "Bible Stories and Poems" (1914). He served as a member on many commissions on prohibition and other social subjects, and was a member of many commissions on war-time activities during the World War. A A. Masked Crab.
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Craig
(EDWARD) GORDON, an English theatrical manager. He was born in 1872 and acted for the first time in 1889 in London, at the Lyceum Theater, under the direction of Henry Irving. He was active as an actor for eight years and in 1897 commenced the study of the art of the theater. He made many productions in Great Britain and on the Continent, in which he introduced features which were the results of his study. He founded a school for the art of the theater, Arena Goldoni, Florence, in 1913, and was a member of the Society of Twelve. His works include: "The Art of the Theater," essays in "The Mask," and in "The Marionette," "Portfolio of Etchings," "The Page," "On the Art of the Theater," "Towards a New Theater."
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Craigie
PEARL RICHARDS. See HOBBES, JOHN OLIVER.
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Craik
DINAH MARIA MULOCK, an English author; born in Stoke-upon- Trent in 1826. She early took the burden of supporting an ailing mother and two younger brothers and wrote stories. Her first serious appearance as a novelist was in 1849, with her story, "The Ogilvies," which was followed by "Olive," "The Head of the Family," and "Agatha's Husband." She never surpassed, however, or even equaled her domestic novel, "John Halifax" (1857), which had an extraordinary popularity, and has been translated into French, German, Italian , B CRAB B. King Crab. Greek, and Russian. The scene is laid at Tewkesbury, where a marble medallion has been placed to her memory in the abbey. A pension of £60 a year, awarded to her in 1864, she set aside for authors less fortunate than herself. In 1865 she married George Lillie Craik, a partner in the publishing house of Macmillan & Co. She died Oct. 12, 1887.
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