Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upon his inoffensive likeness. Even at the Japanese Foreign Office, where velvet politeness is an iron rule, Press Spokesman Shiratori Toshio snapped: "If a man in Mr. Stimson's position loses his head at such a critical moment in the affairs of Japan, the consequences would be very grave indeed. . . . Mr. Stimson says the Japanese Army in Manchuria 'ran amuck.' This is considered a very bold statement indeed...
...first citizens. His recognition by the House of Morgan after U. S. Gypsum's showing in its struggle with Certain-Teed was doubtless due to the fact that another potent competitor in the difficult building trade is Morganized Johns-Manville Co. When in 1921 Montgomery Ward faced grave difficulties because of inventory value shrinkage, the late Theodore Frelinghuysen Merseles was made president. Expansion followed and in 1927 President Merseles left to head Johns-Manville. He was in this position when he died in 1929. Succeeding him in Montgomery Ward was George Bain Everitt who had had 15 years...
...picture shows the sweet and grave dignity typical of Bellini, but it is almost certainly the work of one of his pupils, perhaps Niccolo Rondinelli. In the Layard collection of the National Gallery is another version, differing only in that the Madonna's hood is more elaborately embroidered and that there is more of the landscape visible on the left. This panel also is signed on the parapet: Ioannes Bellinvs. Crowe and Cavalcaselle think that Basaiti helped Bellini in the Layard Collection picture. Mr. Perkins believes that these pictures were executed by Rondinelli. He states (1905) that a third version...
...appeal. Like a jackass braying into an empty rain barrel, he mistakes the sound and fury for wisdom and profundity. He encourages and agitates unrest and class hatred. We apologize for having supported him. To go with him further is like walking through a slaughter house to an open grave...
...these antics caused World Court Judge Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime U. S. Secretary of State and onetime "Nervous Nelly," to observe boldly from his fireside in St. Paul, Minn, last week: "The time for secret diplomacy in grave instances of this kind is past! Private conversations are apt to be misunderstood and misinterpreted. No nation has a right to consider itself aggrieved by having its attention called to violations or threatened violations of treaties. War is no longer the private affair of belligerent nations...