Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plain golden oak casket received Nikola Pashitch at the last. Slowly, on a rumbling gun carriage, he passed to his grave through broad avenues which were muddy roads in his youth. As clods fell upon the casket a priest bearing a silver tray of steamed wheat gave to each onlooker a few grains which they munched in mystic symbolism...
...Winthrop Ames took hold. He stages Gilbert and Sullivan in the spirit of its verses and music. His characters skip, bounce, flit, dance. They put the show in motion, bring it to life. It is no longer the sly satire of Gilbert peeking through a tricky melody from behind grave actors. The Ames people are as ridiculous, as blastingly satirical as the lines and music themselves. Hence, The Pirates of Penzance achieves success equal to that of lolanthe...
...lasting monuments. With them his name will always be connected. But there is another aspect of his contribution to the intellectual and the spiritual life of his day and of our day, that boasts no such imperishable testimonials. Those human things that caused it, his smile and his grave placidity, his honesty and his courage, his unerring appreciation of human values in life as in teaching, are certain to suffer some strange sea-change. Some of us today have random personal memories upon which these legends will be built; the tributes that his ninety-two years of useful life called...
...translations. A chemist in their number, Dr. Hiram S. Lukens, had taken to his laboratory a quaint recipe by which Friar Bacon had said he obtained salts of copper. Dr. Lukens had never seen such a formula before, but it worked. In announcing his success, Dr. Lukens made a grave omission, failing to name the mediaeval ingredients. Bat's blood? Sea water? Pig bristles? Crocodile teeth...
They float down the Ohio on a raft with a Captain and a Professor. They penetrate fertile Kentucky, pause in boisterous St. Louis, journey through the Southwest with grave discomfort from Indians and thirst, at last reaching Silver in San Diego, Calif. There Shiloh, who has successfully resisted five wilderness nymphs, all ravishingly endowed and more than amiable, sends David in his stead to woo the lovely object of their odyssey, himself reclining on a Pacific headland to ponder his necessity for a persistently elusive ideal...