Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that for a Judge to act as an understudy of Providence and deliver pronouncements which are nothing but the expression of his private prejudices . . . reflecting a mixture of prejudice, naivete, ignorance and abuse of power difficult to match . . . not only merits the severest reprimand, but raises a grave question of his fitness to sit on the bench anywhere in America...
...discovered that the grave of Richard, first Viscount Haldane of Cloan, Scottish statesman buried last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 20), had been opened during the night. A man was found asleep in a corner of the graveyard. Investigation identified him as the stranger who had momentarily halted Lord Haldane's funeral in London to protest. He explained that he was a spiritualist, said Lord Haldane was not dead, that he had a message for him. The man has been arrested...
Jolly British tars were grave, last week, at news that the submarine L55 had been raised from Baltic waters, after nine years. Forty-one British skeletons were discovered by the salvage crew all of whom were Soviet Russian sailors, commanded by Comrade Chief Commander (Admiral) R. A. Muklevich. Said...
Today lean, brittle Maximilian Harden is the tenant of a grave (TIME, Nov. 7). Doubtless his ghost was in a towering rage, last week; because the fat, poodle-nosed man whom he had called "King Gustav" was quietly celebrating his fifth anniversary as German Foreign Minister. The Poodle-Man is Dr. Gustav Stresemann.* He celebrated at Oberhof, a Thuringian spa, where he has been convalescing from an almost fatal kidney attack (TIME, May 28). Telegrams, cables and flowers poured in, for Dr. Stresemann is the outstanding and most potent German statesman. He has held the Foreign Ministry while nine Cabinets...
...German Republic has no war office but instead a "Ministry of Defense." Therefore French pacifists find it intolerable that France still has a "Ministry of War." Last week the situation was finally deemed so grave that War Minister Paul Painlevé sped out to Bourg and there proposed amid pacifist plaudits that his war office shall be re-named the "Ministry of Peace...