Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meant the end. Like Fighter Clemenceau, Pacifier Briand had a minimum of belief in God and a future life, if he could be said to have any. Of the French Wartime "Big Three" only Marshal Ferdinand Foch went devout and confident to a Catholic's eternal life beyond the grave...
...short lived but when you state in a recent issue that Eliot House will be the only House to have an "individual coach" (one wonders whether a coach can be more than an individual) for its "exclusive boating club" ("for it's jolly boating weather") you do a grave injustice to my quondam mentor and still esteemed friend, the Head Tutor of Lowell House, whose services to the crew, back in '31, still live vividly in the recollections of those privileged to row in that remarkable boat. Has the present generation forgotten that breath-taking race against Dunster House...
...stiff note" to Japan, protesting her aggression in China. Others forecast an "important statement of U. S. policy." When Mr. Stimson finished his composition, he summoned Senator William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, read him what he had written. Senator Borah nodded his head in grave assent, departed in silence. Next day he was not in the least surprised when he received from Secretary Stimson a public letter, addressed to him but directed at Japan. Secretary Stimson undertook at legal length to answer Senator Borah's question as to whether Japan's hostilities against China...
Ominously silent was Tammany, of whose support Governor Roosevelt may be in grave need when he goes before the national convention seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in June. Silent, too, was fun-loving Mayor James John Walker of New York City, whose business agent has been missing for months, at the prospect of further investigations by the Legislative Committee into the private finances of the city's officialdom...
...Confirmed the appointment of Joseph Clark Grew, Ambassador to Turkey, to be Ambassador to Japan. ¶Adopted a House resolution authorizing the Congress to place a wreath on the grave of George Washington's mother...