Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become obsessed by his hatred for Germany, by scorn for the way so many French musicians took Germans for their patterns. As a last pro- test he gave himself the title of Musicien Français. But France paid him no honors the day he rode to his grave. His only funeral march was played by Germany's Big Bertha...
...Slim" Jones, holder of the world's record for being buried alive (38 days), turned over in his coffin, picked up his telephone, asked for long distance, chatted with Ray Richards, buried alive near a hot dog stand in Denville, N. J. Jones told Richards that his grave was in the bed of a dried-up stream, that heavy rains threatened to wash him out, that he intended to stay underground 40 days if he could. Richards told Jones that bandits came to his grave, tried to steal the day's cash receipts, threw burning matches down...
...this information threw the citizens of the East Side of New York City into a turmoil in view of the fact that most of the persons in that vicinity had in the past eaten the products of this company, and according to the Jewish dietary laws, there is a grave question as to whether the dishes that were used while eating these products would continue to be kosher. . . . HARRY SAND...
...peak on the second Thursday in May. The junior class would assemble at 5 p. m. around the Yale Fence on the Old Campus while hundreds of other students and guests looked on from the sidelines and from surrounding dormitory windows. Out among the juniors would pass 60 grave-faced seniors, one at a time, each hunting a certain man. When the senior found his junior he would slap him on the back and bark, "Go to your room!" Such was Yale's "Tap Day." when the four secret senior societies (Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head...
...Vassar College sees Yalemen about his campus every weekend. Interviewed by a Yale Newsman, said he: "We are now faced by the grave problem of extensive lack of manners in regard to liquor, and I dread the approach of beer for that reason. I resent unmannerly actions resulting from liquor, and I can neither forgive nor forget them. . . . Drinking is an art, and while in France it may be productive of good conversation, in Germany of music, and in England of social living, here it makes fools out of gentlemen. . . . We have arrived at a point where a decided stand...