Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Abraham Lincoln, having been reinterred 16 times, had reason last week to turn once more in his grave. Just before his 122nd birthday last week there was published his 112th biography, Lincoln: The Man? by Poet Edgar Lee Masters. Unlike his Illinois neighbor Poet Carl Sandburg, whose Lincoln biography is a labor of love, morose Poet Masters pictures the Emancipator not as a warm-hearted prairie prophet but as a cold, lazy fanatic. Kansas-born, Poet Masters spent his boyhood at Petersburg, Ill,., went to Knox College (Galesburg), grew up swaddled in the Lincoln legend which he now repudiates...
...vulgarity of words which were as well untrue. ... No letter has been found that Lincoln wrote Anne Rutledge, and none that she wrote him. When she was dead she was buried in a lonely country graveyard, and Lincoln did not attend the funeral, nor ever visit her grave, nor ever give her a memorial stone. [He] was an undersexed...
...Lord Newton, 74, whether in 1908 they "denounced the British Government then in power for remaining silent when the report to the Russian Duma gave authentic details of cruelty under the Tsarist Regime? . . . Evidence in the present situation is much more vague and unreliable than in 1908. . . . We have grave suspicions concerning labor conditions in Russia...
...employ the term 'grave suspicions...
...Grave suspicions...