Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plague menaces-indeed already afflicts-a great portion of the flock intrusted to our care, striking more clearly the weaker though the more strongly loved -the children; the humble and those with less money-the workers and the proletariat. We refer to the grave pecuniary embarrassment, the financial crisis which ... is bringing unemployment to every land. . . . Now Winter approaches and with it the long succession of suffering and privation which that season brings, especially to the poor and to the helpless young. Most serious of all, however, is that steady aggravation of the plague of unemployment to which we have...
Quite frankly the Vagabond has never cared deeply for Wordsworth. He exhibits, in his poetry, too frank an interest in the exact size of a newly dug grave, or the precise circumference of a huntsman's swollen ankle. But he has compensated for this rather crass precision by developing an excellent and timely theory to the effect that the world is too much with us. And so the Vagabond will go today to hear Sholley, Keats, and Wordsworth as they troop across the platform, and to see them bow gracefully, when they pass Professor Lowes...
...chiefly concerned with the world's Gold and what to do with it, especially in relation to the politics of Europe. ¶ Back from the American Legion convention (see p. 13) where he scotched, temporarily at least, further Bonus inroads on the Treasury, President Hoover issued a grave statement last week warning the country against excessive national expenditures. He pointed out that the last Congress had been asked to spend seventeen billion dollars more than it did, largely by "group and sectional interests" and "organized minorities." Observers thought he had in mind such proposals...
This action was greeted with the same shout which had followed President Hoover's grave anti-Bonus address: "We want beer. We want beer. WE WANT BEER...
...Tarleton was born & raised in Manhattan but his family were impoverished Southern gentry. Kip watched his father drink up the profits of the family hotel, drink himself into his grave. Kip's mother made him swear never to touch a drop, and Kip was willing. Kip was always anxious to do the right thing. When he got a job as assistant superintendent of a big Long Island estate and found that his boss was taking a commission on purchases, he informed his employers, was snubbed for his pains. He met Maggie May (also Southern though not so impoverished...