Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the Roosevelts will show their guests Mount Vernon, going by water on the Potomac (lunch aboard). At Arlington, the King will wreathe the Unknown Soldier's grave. Dinner that night will be at the British Embassy, after which George & Elizabeth will go by train to Manhattan...
...twas fixed right dey'd make all de livin' dey need from de ground." What worries her most is having had to drop out of the burial association which costs 25? each time a member dies. Haunted by the prospect of a pauper's grave, Gracie prays: "Please keep death off till I get out'n dis shape...
...argument crumbles when the facts of the case are examined. Ninety-eight per cent of all schools eligible for the grant have accepted it and this group contains-some three-hundred private non-sectarian colleges, including Yale, Columbia, and Radcliffe--none of whom have yet shown any grave sign of government corruption...
Ickes conclusions on columnists: 1) "As quasi-public figures themselves, it is their duty to be factual and truthful"; 2) "A grave responsibility rests upon publishers and editors to deny the use of their columns to writers who take liberties with the truth...
...boys threw his coat over her shoulders, followed her into the graveyard. She vanished, he fell dead. Panic-stricken, the other-boy drove to the address she had given, there learned that the girl had died several months before. On the dead girl's grave, they found the dead boy's coat. When they exhumed her, they found a wine stain on her white burial dress...