Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Brand sat down looking shaken with the emotion of a vicarious victory. A great many people were clapping and cheering. A great many more were laughing, waiting. They saw what was coming -saw grave old Theodore Elijah Burton arising to rebutt...
...visitor's swart compatriots made him the bearer of a concurrent resolution of their Legislature, addressed to President Coolidge, asking that Puerto Rico be separated from the U. S., as an independent State, so that its people should be "Americans" no longer. The reason given was that a "grave economic situation" existed. There were jobs for only one in three of Puerto Rico's 1,250,000 inhabitants and this, charged the native politicos, was the fault...
...grave question of violation of the Treaty of Trianon by recent smugglery of Italian arms into Hungary (TIME, March 5) was referred by the Council, last week, to a committee consisting of a Finn, a Chilean and a Dutchman...
...people, that they put him in the seat occupied by the beloved William McKinley as Governor. The one time he was defeated for office was not by a Democrat or a Republican but by John Barleycorn-just before this sum total of all things iniquitous was kicked into his grave. The fact that John had once knocked out "our Frank," was so hotly resented by the good people of Ohio that they urged him thereafter to spend most of his time in Washington, D. C., as Senator from the state now known as the Mother of Presidents...
...personality the Sardinian is grave and dignified, chivalrous and hospitable. Unfortunately he is nearly always poor and generally illiterate. Luxury to him means a tummy replete with porchettu, or sucking pig roasted upon a spit. Between piglets he subsists upon a diet featuring frue (sour milk) and a sweet fresh cheese. Hardy, he is apt not to notice fleas...