Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...listened last week in Seville, amid an imposing group of gold-braided notables, to a high-sounding address by Spain's Dictator General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera. The dictator gesticulated, emphasized, smiled, scowled, pointed. To foreign ears it would have sounded like a declaration indeed, perhaps of grave warning, perhaps defiance. What the dictator was leading up to, however, was only this...
...scheduled regatta in the Gloncester dories which was to have been held before the game was postponed until a late hour in the evening because the Metropolitan police thought it would be unwise for 16 Lampoon editors to go down to a watery grave. The race was finally run off at midnight and the Lampooners under the influence of the splendid half-moon grew too romantic and swam in the wrong direction. The reporters who lined the banks proclaimed the CRIMSON winner by half a nose for the five mile course...
...that feature of the plan which proposes to exclude the Freshmen from the advantages of the new system. I don't know whether that is because no one loves a Freshman anyway, or merely because no one wastes much thought on Freshmen, but I believe so strongly that a grave mistake will be made if the Freshmen are not included in the House organizations that I cannot refrain from registering my protest...
...Western world had come to him by accident, and was ignored; the East was in his blood, and ordered all his goings. Yet, as a grave man of the East might, he had his festivities, and could on occasion be gay. Among a few friends he could tell a capital story and enjoy a well-cooked dish. But his ordinary fare was meagre in the extreme. For one of his heartier meals he would cut a piece of meat into bits and roast it on a spit, as Homer's people roasted theirs. "Why not use a gridiron?" I once...
...little village of Steenstrat, a grave and august group of French, British and Belgian notables unveiled a monument last week to the 39,000 French and British victims of the first German gas attack...