Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disarmament's headstone last week was a bulky 7,000-word White Paper from the British Government which detailed solemnly and without comment Disarmament's faltering steps into its grave since that day last October when Hitlerite Germany withdrew from the Conference and announced its withdrawal from the League rather than wait until 1938 to attain arms equality with France (TIME, Oct. 23). Eight documents paralleled the following events...
Fundamentally this seemed no great crime. Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were never accused of bribery-by-belly when they hauled hollow-eyed politicians out of bed to attend early breakfasts at the White House and listen to Presidential persuasion. But Britain took the Churchill charge seriously. Grave under his wig, Speaker the Rt. Hon. Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy allowed the resolution to be passed, without vote, to the Committee on Privilege for investigation...
...West Point, Ga., Nadine Earle's 25 Sunday-school classmates came to her fourth birthday party, played in the miniature house which was her Christmas present, ate ice cream & cake. Nadine's miniature house stands on Nadine's grave. She died week before Christmas...
Producer P. T. Barnum, an expounder of temperance, never allowed anything stronger than beer served in his auditorium. But the thrifty showman must stir in his grave, into which he was lowered 43 years ago last week, at the amount of the brew given gratis at the American Music Hall. Lavishly distributed by Producer Harry C. Bannister. Cinemactress Ann Harding's divorced husband, round after round appears, during the performance and after, when the cast descends among the guests and encourages one & all to join in singing old favorites...
...judge dies and, finding heaven uncongenial, comes back to earth in time to go with his body to the grave...