Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other canvases exhibited the wide range of methods, the diverse schools which Painter Brush has dabbled in in Paris under Gerome, in Florence, in the U. S. Far West, in New Hampshire. Twelve were portraits of mothers and children; grave, almost severe blonde ladies clasping infants in whose dimpled countenances no inherited austerity was yet apparent. There were also children alone, their small faces made charming by the possession of some perennial secret; and there was the picture of an Indian in his canoe on a dark river, who stared through a subaqueous gloom of trees at a bird, moving...
...London the fact that the House of Commons was in recess, with the Prime Minister and every statesman of consequence away on vacation, caused the grave and startling news from India to be received with curious apathy. Evidently carnivorous Church of Englanders still view the menaces of vegetarian Hindus with the customary contempt. The Daily Herald, party organ of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, recalled that during 1929 the Indian Nationalists demanded "dominion status," and complacently alluded to the 1930 demand for Pur an Swaraj (Complete Independence) as "an academic change involving no immediate consequences." In Manhattan, Chairman Sailendranath Ghose...
From his mother's hearth Editor Daudet rushed to the grave of his son Philippe- famed as a martyr royalist. Picture postcards of this youth are constantly distributed by L'Action, each boldly imprinted: "Philippe Daudet, born Jan. 7th, 1909, assassinated Nov. 24th, 1923, by the police of the French Republic...
...changes wrought by the motor car in particular have brought in their wake not only benefits but serious and aggravated problems. Street congestion and accidents have assumed alarming proportions in all of the larger effetely, while even in the smaller communities the steadily increasing volume of traffic has created grave difficulties...
...grave condition of opera in Italy was the reason given recently by Composer Mascagni for endorsing sound films. He even suggested that his own next opera would be composed expressly for the cinema. Said he: "Composers must adapt themselves to the new conditions, as the talkies can be made a medium for educating the masses musically...