Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Signing a code is not in the law. Flying the Blue Eagle is not in the law. Johnson's daily expression of opinion is not law. . . . Not only has Johnson attempted a grave injustice upon a law-abiding American industry; he has also assumed to talk like a Dictator and the Supreme Court combined...
...should be heard and if there were no one else to play it, I would do so myself. But the opposite is the case. The demand for first performances has meant that many works are born and buried at the same time. They go from the cradle to the grave in a single concert...
...Making four speeches to McKee's one, he did not let his opponent's charges go long unnoticed. He, too, had pledged charter reforms and at the Harvard Club had impressed many of his conservative listeners, to whom his past radicalism was the cause of grave suspicion, with a plan to refinance the city's indebtedness at lower interest rates. He now stepped up to a microphone, radioed a paragraph-by-paragraph critique of the McKee address. Facts at his chubby fingertips, the tousle-headed little candidate barked: "Let us see how Mr. McKee 'instituted real...
...soldier's grave, for thee the best...
What the Mercury will be like under its new editor not even Publisher Knopf- who said only that the magazine would be conducted along "the same general lines" -knew last week. Grave, workmanlike, austere where Mencken was clownish, inspired, blatant. Editor Hazlitt started his career on the Wall Street Journal, was a financial writer for the New York Evening Post and then the Mail before he became literary editor of the Sun in 1925. He resigned in 1929 to join The Nation. Last month he published The Anatomy of Criticism. Essayist William Hazlitt was his great-great-great uncle...