Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...brother officers complaints against the conduct of Rear Admiral Collard which were embodied in a letter written by Captain K. G. B. Dewar of the Royal Oak to superior naval officials. The act of making known the contents of this secret letter laid open Commander Daniel to the grave, technical charge of "subverting discipline by bringing a superior officer into contempt...
Nova Pictoris, bright star of a comparatively younger generation, last week startled grave astronomers by unaccountable conduct. In Cape Town it was observed that two stars were shining where Nova Pictoris had shone alone. Discovered in 1925, the star had been behaving in orderly fashion, following the regular pattern of its ancestors: first a mass of fiery brilliant gases, then cooling, contracting, dimming. Recently the La Plata Observatory in Argentina reported strange doings in the nebula of the young star. When the Union of South Africa Observatory last week turned its great 26 inch telescope on Nova Pictoris and revealed...
...requested lately in the maiden speech of Senator Wagner of New York (TIME March 12). With the air of a man patting a pretty good bond on the back Secretary Davis said that while unemployment is "serious" it is "not so extensive or so grave as the estimates which have been generally circulated...
...Commerce Committee in its bituminous coal investigation.* The millionaires were three: Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corp.; John D. Rockefeller Jr.; and Richard B. Mellon, a director of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. They contrasted sharply ?"Charlie" Schwab, with his theatrical rags-to-riches air; the grave, earnest heir of John D. Rockefeller, with his air of Christian concern over a social evil; and Banker Mellon, cautious, acquainted with politicians, suspicious of the Committee's motives, uncommunicative, unsympathetic...
...bromide is any expression that has been used enough to become nauseating. Examples: i) Here's mud in your eye. 2) A little learning is a dangerous thing. 3) Finders keepers, losers weepers. 4) It's a sad world, mates. 5) One foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel. Drug store cowboys are fond of bromides...