Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Ely's plan to force Massachusetts to be the first to ratify the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment is unseemly in view of the grave consequences and responsibility involved," declared A. J. Davis, head of the Massachusetts Anti-Saloon League, in an interview last night...
Though no disturbance was reported last week at Brooklyn's Evergreen Cemetery, by rights Anthony Comstock should have been spinning like a teetotum in his grave. Viking Press issued the kind of book that was like a call of boots & saddles to the old vice crusader. Erskine Caldwell is a newcomer to the Viking list, a young author of the leftwing, hard-boiled school of U. S. fiction. Queer mixtures of Rabelaisian spade-calling, bell laughter and poetic proletarianism, God's Little Acre luridly illustrates two present-day intelligentsiac trends: towards unashamed sensuality, against capitalistic industry. It also...
...lodge in the Sussex Hills last week were lowered eight small, flower-covered boxes. As the first shovelful of dirt fell down upon them, Frederick Vodegel fired three volleys from his shotgun. That, he explained, was the German farewell salute to noted hunting dogs. On a boulder by the grave will be chiseled the 13 dachshunds' names, above them the word: MURDERED...
With the ex-President available, in case France's crisis should become so grave as to demand formation of a "National Government" above party, President Lebrun tentatively picked another politician of the moderate Left, told pugnacious Edouard Deladier, son of a baker, once protege of Edouard Herriot and War Minister, under Paul-Boncour, to try to form a Cabinet...
...Especially I admire that closing sentence: "That night snow fell blotting out all trace of the new grave...