Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strenuously. Namely, the application of the word "pornographic" to the music of Igor Stravinsky. That word suggests something cheap, showy and vulgar. Brutal he may be-savage and colossally déchirant in his treatment of Sacré du Printemps, but never pornographic! Please retract-you do him a grave injustice. JOSEPH STAPLES JOHN H. HARNEY...
Flabbergasting Name. Laborites explained that the means to which Scot MacDonald resorted to satisfy his curiosity were justified by the grave Indian crisis. When three newspapers (London Daily Telegraph, London Daily Chronicle, Manchester Daily Dispatch) let out in advance the state secret that the MacDonald Government had decided to arrest St. Gandhi in India (TIME, May 12) even the cool Scot's nerves jumped...
...long ago tall, grave King Haakon VII belied his stern appearance, made the first contribution to a fund for the benefit of a woman with two children who, beaten repeatedly by her husband, finally killed him with...
General Manager Kent Cooper's address savored of a reply to Editor Oswald Garrison Villard's bitter attack on what he construed to be a shabby popularizing of the A. P. which would cause Melville E. Stone (a founder) to "turn over in his grave." Speaking about a night on a train he had spent with Founder Stone, during which Stone appeared equally at ease before a group of flagmen and a onetime premier of Canada, said General Manager Cooper...
...they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened." But, says Author Linderman, when the U. S. declared war against Germany, Plenty-coups urged his young men to enlist. The Government recognized his patriotism, chose him to lay the Indian wreath on the Unknown Soldier's grave at Arlington...