Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nuisance but a passionate delight. He knows the first name (and even the children's names) of nearly every person in Kentucky of voting age-not just because it's good political business, but because he likes to know. To him speechmaking is no grave statement of solemn issues, but a chance to play his own tune on the great harp of an audience. And a harp is what his audience becomes. So infectious is his gifted gab that the soberest observers have found themselves swaying to the roll of it, while the Chandler fans yell "Tell...
...Indian Government is more powerful than the votes of all legislators put together, his statement committed the vast subcontinent to war. This fact was appreciated by all, but from the Indians present came no sign of enthusiasm. It was only when His Excellency unexpectedly announced that the grave political question of all-India federation, which virtually all shades of Indian opinion had opposed for different reasons, would be shelved for the duration of the war that the Indian members rose and cheered the Viceroy with such zeal that the Assembly's speaker had to hammer his desk thrice...
When the Cabinet assembled next afternoon, the President, who likes nothing better than to pop a dramatic surprise, was grave. He wanted their opinions, he said, as to whether he should make public the message he had received. He told them what it was. The Secretaries were variously shocked, disgusted, amused. They split, 5-to-5, on whether to make the information public. The President thereupon cast his own deciding vote, told them he had made up his mind: he would tell the people. Later in the day newspapermen were called in and given a bulletin...
...Finnish government, paying grave attention to the capitulations by Estonia and Latvia following Soviet "Invitations" for discussions such as Finland has received, declined to send Foreign Minister Eljas Erkko to Moscow...
...marquee should be turned upside down at the University Theatre this week. The underdog of the twin bill, "Unexpected Father," has been dug out of the usual grave for which it was intended, since it is a grade B picture, by adept directing and by Mischa Auer who is at his best in the picture; the picture makes Bing Crosby's "Star Maker" seem even more tedious than it really...