Word: grave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Replying to questions anent the revolutionary outburst in Spain (TIME, July 5) Alfonso rapped out: "If there were grave troubles in Spain, do you think I would be here...
During the week despatches indicated an exceedingly grave situation in Spain. The potent army juntas ("committees": military trade unions) were reported to have turned almost solidly against Dictator Premier Primo de Rivera. He was said to have responded by arresting over 400 army officers, and to have imprisoned as a hostage the daughter of insurgent General Luque who had managed to escape to France. While the Spanish censorship obscured all details, returning travelers reported pessimistically that the De Rivera Government, unable to rely upon the loyalty of the Army, has hastily armed the police with full war equipment...
...Again (Richard Dix, Chester Conklin). Any actor with Chester Conklin at his elbow runs grave risk. Mr. Conklin is so superbly comic that the witnesses are likely to be annoyed at interruptions by the usual movie romance. Such is the case with this display. Richard Dix, inevitably capable and decorative, tries to project a threadbare mythical kingdom story in opposition to Mr. Conklin's staggering comedy. Probably for the first time in history the custard pie is the power behind the throne...
...Three grave officers-Lieutenants Barksdale, Lockwood, Amis-examined the laundry of London, pock-marked with gobs of oily dirt. Then the officers rendered their decision-the stains, fallen from heaven upon the sheets, were not oil, engine grease or any airplane droppings. No, the stains were mud. Perhaps it had been raining mud. This is exactly what had happened. In other cities the same phenomenon occurred. A high wind had carried dust into the atmosphere until saturation brought dust and water down together. . . . Flyers were vindicated...
...great persistence the rights of Nippon. While the Immigration Bill was pending before the Senate (TIME, April 28, 1924, CONGRESS), Ambassador Hanihara, an experienced diplomat, but goaded to extremities by the Senate's anti-Japanese predilections, staked all upon a "diplomatic threat" to the Secretary of State that "grave consequences" might follow the enactment of the Japanese exclusion clause of the bill. The Senate, reacting violently and negatively to the Hanihara note, promptly rushed through the present immigration legislation debarring all Japanese, except ministers, artists, students, their wives, their children...