Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could be devised to bring the processes of justice into disrepute. . . . Despite the privileges accorded to the Negro, we do not think it can be said that the possibility of such prejudice is so remote as to justify the risk of forbidding the inquiry. And this risk becomes most grave when the issue is of life or death...
...April 6 issue of TIME under "Australia" is, in my opinion, a grave though perhaps natural mistake: "Australians . . . have . . . in common a grand wholehearted despisal of anything and everything to do with the U. S." On the whole this is rather true of their press, politicians and local businessmen in their public expressions. However, this attitude is mostly but another example of world-wide poor sales- manship by countries down to individuals in destructively criticizing outsiders and their products in an effort to increase the sale of home-made products...
...poison her husband while Mr. Rathbone is away on a concert tour. Detected by a doctor, she jumps into the most valuable body of water in the dramatists' atlas, the Seine. From this point on, Melo flags and falters. There is a tableau vivant around the dead woman's grave, followed by a long-winded scene at the violinist's home where the husband tries to get Mr. Rathbone to admit his philandering. Melo ends on an unclear and noncommittal note, possibly because plump, engaging Actress Best is killed off one act too soon...
Mortician Hoffman put up a canopy at the grave, at each corner a blue floodlight operated by storage batteries. (Few cemeteries have electric light wires through them.) The 400 mourners rode up in 93 automobiles and four sets of headlights were aimed to give further illumination...
...Miami, Fla., Chief Tommy Tommy, Seminole Indian educated in white schools, member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, contact man between whites and Indians, died. He was buried by a Methodist minister. His relatives tossed live embers and three matches into his grave: an old Seminole custom, to light his way to the Happy Hunting Ground...