Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty, while busy with such grave matters of State, snatched time to give a birthday breakfast party at 8 a.m. to Crown Prince Mihai. Cake is sometimes eaten for breakfast in Rumania, and Mihai sat down to steaming coffee and a cake with 18 candles. He is thus of age and under the Rumanian Constitution automatically became a Senator, as do all crown princes of the Rumanian Royal Family on attaining their majority...
Correspondent William Watts Chaplin of I. N. S. reported seeing a distinguished British officer lay a wreath on a grave marked with his own name in one of the great World War I cemeteries near the front. The grave contained the officer's amputated leg, believed to be all that was left...
Last week the old hulk was raised from its grave, renamed Scribner's Commentator, and put to sea again. It kept the Scribner's format virtually unchanged. Editor and general manager of Scribner's Commentator is Francis Rufus Bellamy, onetime executive editor of The New Yorker...
...Brunswick, N. J., owned by the American Legion, has nary a tree on the place. Stephen Crane's in Newark was being torn down; Malone got it a reprieve until December. Philip Freneau's near Matawan, N. J. is for sale: $35,000 with his grave; $29,000 without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita, has set up his room just as it used to be, quill pen, half-smoked cigar, demijohn and, in the old bed, under...
...imports to the U. S.) and neither has enough oil for its distribution system. In a warring world they will doubtless find buyers for their Colombian oil, but may bring it to the U. S. to be refined. Last week old Virgilio Barco was many years in his grave, but his son Jorge (pronounced Horkhay) Barco, in Cúcuta, had himself a few drinks as the royalties began to accumulate...