Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor Smith belongs to a church which holds adulterous every wedlock not favored by its Pope; which brands as bastardy every birth not blessed by its book; which denies sanctuary even in man's last, long home, the grave, save it be hallowed in the dead language of Rome...
...Public Instruction and Fine Arts cried: "After a lifetime of bitter struggle, Emile Combes declared: 'I never expect justice from my adversaries!' May this monument assuage those bitter words. May it be said that the enemies of Emile Combes did not pursue their grudge beyond his grave...
...fine optimism pervades this symposium (only Stuart Chase is unqualifiedly pessimistic: he analyzes the passivity of fun?listening to radio instead of doing amateur singing, fiddling), but the optimism is qualified with a recognition of arrant abuses, grave dangers. Thus, the Webbs on Labor, McBain on Law and Government, Winslow on Health, Dorsey on Race, James Harvey Robinson on Religion, Lewis Mumford...
...best known and most significant painter of U. S. portraits lay for many years in an unmarked grave in the old General Central Burying Ground in Boston Common. In 1897 the Paint and Clay Club attached a bronze tablet in the form of a palette...
There he might find it. It's a pity, almost, that Presidential campaigns don't come oftener. Harvard undergraduates seem to have lost the faculty of lifting themselves out of themselves among familiar surroundings, and grave doubts have arisen as to the possibility of any sublimation of the student personality. But six weeks have wrought a revelation. Anyone who has seen--and heard--his friend who is wrapped up most of the time in thirteenth-century Italy become a member of the electorate will admit...