Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Churchill's misstatements of fact are so many and so grave that no historian will in future be able to accept any of his assertions about the War without the most careful checking of references...
Democrats polled some 160,000 votes (40,000 less than the Republicans) with Alfred Emanuel Smith comfortably leading with 53,751. Senator James A. Reed, eloquent Missourian, ran second with 41,185. William Gibbs McAdoo, declared politically dead by Smith followers, stirred in his grave and captured 37,245 ballots. Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland, Wet champion of states' rights, totaled 26,113 and Governor Alvin Victor Donahey of Ohio, very dark horse, polled...
...been prominent in the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti--not, probably, because the University is a hot bed of socialism, not because the men concerned have sought to create names for themselves by sensational tactics, but because to most enlightened people it appeared that justice in Massachusetts was in grave danger of miscarrying. The courts, they thought, had perhaps been honest, had adhered to every rule and precedent, had obeyed the letter of the law to the end of the alphabet. But the very safeguards of the individual in this case, it seemed, had rendered justice in the broad sense...
...views on slavery) was not born at Lake Placid and he lived there, or in nearby North Elba, only six years. The region is now better known for its skiing, skating, golf, tennis and dancing facilities, and as a stronghold of Simplified Spelling, than for John Brown's grave on ever-green Mount Elba...
...chapter containing the least Halliburton relates a visit to Rupert Brooke's grave at Skyros. Of all the Playboy's heroes, Poet Brooke seems to be the most genuine. But Poet Byron comes a close second: "Lord Byron once wrote that he would rather have swum the Hellespont than written all his poetry. So would...