Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Written by John Meehan and Dore Schary, supplied with data from Father Flanagan, who acted as technical advisor, directed by Norman Taurog (Skippy, Tom Sawyer), Boys Town presents its subject with commendable simplicity. As Father Flanagan, Spencer Tracy supplies a grave paternalism well calculated to contrast with Master Rooney's fantastic swagger...
...provision was written into the new constitution requiring New York City to give up its system of election by proportional representation which, since its adoption last year, has proved a grave disadvantage to political machines...
Socialist leader, M. Leon Blum, whose party is the largest in the Chamber, was forced to pussyfoot. He came out in his newspaper Le Populaire thus: "We do not seek to exploit against Edouard Daladier the difficulties which he has created for himself. The hour is too grave for that. But it is necessary that he be warned, if he has not already been. For repeal of the social legislation or for a reversal of attitude toward the working class, let him not count on the Socialist Party...
...Proviso township, near Chicago, Oscar Atkins, who had lived 17 days in a grave five feet deep in a vacant lot, clambered up, peevishly took down his sign MAN BURIED ALIVE, Ten Cents a Look. In a vacant lot two blocks off, Mrs. Marion Weaver had also dug a grave, had put up a sign GIRL BURIED ALIVE, was taking away all of Oscar Atkins' customers. Two miles away, Lester Mclntyre, buried alive 21 days, clambered out when it started to rain. Said Lester McIntyre: "My grave leaks...
...said to have brought a California wife-murderer to justice by revealing to a neighbor that the dead woman had been buried in a woodshed. Last week, Dr. Goodfellow announced that again telepathy had had nothing to do with the case, cited California Supreme Court records, said that the grave had been found by a small boy who peeped through a knothole...