Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English," the master shipper of Liverpool, has grown old and his power is slipping from him. He is, as a rival so aptly says, with "one foot in bankruptcy, the other in the grave." Yet he struggles to dominate his opponents, to maintain his independence, and to provide for the heirs who are the remnant of an ill-spent youth. It is this struggle that the actor portrays with his usual appreciation and subtlety. "Old English" dies in the end, the victim of his own will, and it is here that the movie falters dangerously. An obsequy held over...
Hard by stood one Jack Carter, horny-handed skipper of the drifter. "Tell me now," said Royal Edward, grave with interest, "when is a bloater a kipper...
...Clearly the evasion of the Prohibition law has become an amusing pastime for many American citizens and blackmailing a murderous and highly profitable business for the bootlegger. These are grave social consequences-of what? Of a law that seems to go against the grain." Four London adolescents caught stealing motorcars from a warehouse which they had "broken and entered" pleaded in court last week: "We only did what Legs Diamond did and he always got off." Because of their youth and innocence the four were let off on parole after being severely lectured...
...since Gregory IX came with the pomp & majesty of his Papal Court to sanctify the bones of the ecstatic little man who was born Francis Bernardone and to bless the foundation of the church of St. Francis rising over his grave, has little hillside Assisi been thrilled as it was last week. The stiff coattails of the bearded, bustling proprietor of the Hotel Subasio flapped with excitement, mayor and corporation excitedly talked plans for two days. Even the Franciscan brothers in the monastery, the Poor Clares in their convent, read their offices with a certain worldly detachment. For Princess Giovanna...
Soon after Bob disappeared, New York's Assistant Attorney-General Watson Washburn announced that he had beea looking into the affairs of Metal & Mining Shares for some months. Gradually grave irregularities were disclosed. By the end of last week Assistant Attorney-General Washburn had made at least three disclosures of so grave a nature as to justify talk of warrants for arrest, indictments. Metal & Mining Shares had falsified an earnings report by which it showed $324,000 profit for the first half of the year. The list of investments which it reported was likewise falsified. The high-grade bluechips...