Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that articulate Franklin Roosevelt, having alienated a considerable portion of his liberal following, is for almost the first time confronted by a formidably articulate opposition. Among U. S. journalists, no more facile penman exists than The New Yorker's famed E. (for Elwyn) B. (for Brooks) White. Grave, smallish Writer White, whose devotees consider him the nation's ablest humorist, is generally content to muse on minor human foibles. In semi-serious vein he perennially campaigns against arsenic apple spray. He is a friend-but not, as reported by bumbling Alexander Woollcott, the founder-of the Enemies...
Amplifying this statement, he pointed out the possible grave international consequences of a change in political alignment at this time, and intimated that a good deal depended on the Leftist party's ability to maintain confidence in the franc...
...plurality of Lodge in the Senatorial campaign mounted higher and Curley's friends dropped away like leaves in the autumn, the ex-governor's political grave seemed dug and waiting. Now comes his bid for the Mayorality--a stunning disappointment to the men and women who have worked for years to drive him out of public life. It must also be a lesson in practical politics, teaching that a machine is not necessarily beaten by one defeat at the polls. Oratory and newspaper articles do not touch the secret sources of the voting strength of a man like Curley...
...listen to their stories, advise them. Last month she reached the Department's retiring age, 63, and found that the law made no provision for pensioning a policewoman. The Chronicle thereupon invited her to become its Director of Social Service, privately interview and assist readers with troubles more grave than the heart, publicly comment on their letters in a daily column...
...criticized their curiosity as frivolous. Had anyone done so, Travelers Binstead and Proud could have answered with some justice that almost any other loyal British subject would have asked the same questions. To consider cricket the "national game" of a world-wide empire is to do it a grave injustice. Extremely dull either to play or to watch, it thrives because in addition to being a game, it is an art, a religion and a huge tea party. The biennial matches between England and Australia, cricket's No. 1 event, combine for Britishers the attractions of a World Series...