Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
Dinah Maria Mulock (1826-1887), an English novelist and poet, commonly known as Miss Mulock. Her first novel, The Ogilvies, was published in 1849. Her reputation was made, however, and is maintained by John Halifax, Gentleman, published in 1857. The story was circulated widely, and was translated into several languages. It is still popular. It is the touching, yet optimistic story of the simple life of a noble man. In all Mrs. Craik produced about twenty novels. A Brave Lady, A Noble Life, and Olive are among them. They are entertaining stories of wholesome tone. Philip, My King, and Douglas, Tender and True, are two of Mrs. Craik's poems which one desires to know. The latter has been set to music, and at one time had great popularity.
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Craiova
or KRAJOVA, the chief city of the province of Doljiu, Rumania, situated on the river Jiu, 110 miles W. of Bucharest, with a population before the World War of about 45,000. The town is the center of an important grain district on the edge of the Wallachian Plain. It was the first important capture made by the Germans on the Rumanian northern front, after the Teutons had broken through the Carpathian Mountains in November, 1916, and began their invasion of Rumania, the town falling into their hands on Nov. 21, 1916, and giving them control of the Craiova- Orsova railroad line. The final defeat of the Central Empires brought the town once more into the hands of the Rumanians.
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Crake
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Cram
RALPH ADAMS, an American architect. He was born in 1863 at Hampton Falls, N. H., and began working as an architect when he was 26 years old, becoming a member of the firm of Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson. His early work A FLOATING CRANE was varied, but was gradually concentrated on ecclesiastical and educational buildings. Among his important undertakings were the Graduate College and Cleveland Tower, Princeton University; Rice Institute, Tex., and Richmond and Sweet Briar Colleges, Va. These were followed by Williams College and Phillips Exeter Academy; St. Albans Cathedral, Toronto; St. Paul's Cathedral, Detroit; St. Thomas' Church, New York; Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, Pa., and others. He was chosen also as consulting architect for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, and has written on architectural subjects, titles of his works being: "Church Building," "The Ruined Abbeys of Great Britain," "Impressions of Japanese Architecture and the Allied Arts," "The Gothic Quest."
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Cramp-Rings, Hallowing
A ceremony which took place in England on Good Friday . It consisted of the repetition of certain psalms and prayers, during which the king rubbed the rings between his hands. It was said that rings thus consecrated on Good Friday by the kings of England, had the power of curing cramp; and the rings, which were given away were much in request even by foreign ambassadors.
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Crane
STEPHEN, an story-writer; born in Newark, N. J., Nov. 1, 1870. He wrote "Maggie," "The Red Badge of Courage," and "George's Mother" (1898), stories; "The Black Riders and Other Lines" (1895), verse; and other books. He died in Badenweiler, Germany, June 5, 1900. an English
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Crane
ROBERT BRUCE, an American painter. He was born in New York in 1857, receiving his first lessons under Alexander Wyant, and later studying in Europe. He devoted his talent in the main to the portrayal of landscapes, such subjects as plowed fields and meadows covered with snow attracting him. Interesting examples of his work are "Autumn" (National Gallery, Washington); "Autumn Uplands" (Metropolitan, New York); "March" (Brooklyn Museum), "Springtime" (Peabody Institute, Baltimore); "The Hills," which won the Saltus prize (National Academy). He was a member of the National Academy of Design and American Water Color Society. THE CROWNED CRANE
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Crane (Any bird of the genus Grus)
any bird of the genus Grus, or the family Gruide. The common crane is G. cinerea. The tip of the bill is horncolored, its middle part greenish-black, the base reddish. The top of the head, which is naked, is of a red color; the plumage in general is an ashy-gray; the throat, neck, and occiput darker; the feet black-length, 3 feet 8 inches to 3 feet 10 inches. It is a grallatorial bird, frequenting marshes. It is a migratory bird, in winter living in India, Egypt, and other warm countries of the Old World, and in summer migrating to the N. In these passages it flies, generally by night, high in air, in a large wedge-formed flock, led by a single leader, or in long lines, and with discordant cries. Where it breeds, which is in the N. of Europe and Siberia, the nest is among rushes. The eggs, two in number, are pale bluishgreen, with brown markings.
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Crane (FRANK an American clergyman)
FRANK, an American clergyman and writer. He was born in 1861 in Urbana, Ill., was educated at Illinois Wesleyan University and ordained to the Methodist Episcopal ministry in 1882. A preacher in Methodist churches in Chicago from 1896, he joined the Congregationalists in 1903. After being pastor of the Union Congregational Church of Worcester, Mass., for five years, ending in 1909, he took up writing moral essays for syndicated newspapers. His works include: "The Religion of To-morrow," "Lame and Lovely."
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Crane (II)
CHARLES RICHARD, an American manufacturer and diplomat, born in Chicago in 1858. He was educated in the Chicago public schools, entered the employ of the Crane Company, and became 1st vice-president in 1894 and president in 1912. In 1909 he was appointed minister to China, but resigned before assuming his official duties. He was again appointed minister to China by President Wilson in 1920. In 1917 he was a member of the Diplomatic Commission to Russia, and was American commissioner on mandates in Turkey in 1919.
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Crane (III)
W(INTHROP) MURRAY, an American public official and manufacturer; born at Dalton, Mass., April 23, 1853. He was educated at the public schools, and at Williston Seminary (A.M., Williams 1897). He was Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts (1897-1899) and Governor (1900-1902). On the death of Senator Hoar he was nominated to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate, and was elected in January, 1905, for the term expiring in 1907, and re-elected for the term 1907-1913. He was a member of the Republican National Committee American (1892-1902), and again from 1904 on, and a delegate-at-large to all Republican National Conventions since 1892, except in 1900. He died in 1920.
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