Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with his whole army. After Waterloo Marshal Ney was condemned to a traitor's death. Following the execution his corpse lay on the ground for a quarter-hour, was then delivered to his family who placed it in a lead casket, buried it without ceremony in an unmarked grave in Paris' Pere-Lachaise Cemetery...
...curious North Carolinians dug up the grave of Peter Stuart Ney, found a skeleton about the size of Marshal Ney's, made a cast of the skull which has since disappeared. Last week in Charlotte, N. C. another group, including Charlotte's chief of detectives, announced that a battery of scientists was being assembled to make, probably next month, an exhaustive examination of Peter Ney's bones and dust. Present will be Dr. J. Edward Smoot, who as a boy saw Peter Ney exhumed in 1887, later gathered what he considered convincing proof of the Marshal...
...scoundrel trying to compel Miss Lang to resume the racket she faked death to desert. Force assisting: Ray Milland, once of the late George V's palace guards, as Jimmy Dawson, a reporter so infatuated that he was in the habit of leaving bouquets on the supposed grave of Miss Lang inscribed "in memory of glamour." Plot development consists mostly of the pastime, so popular at Paramount this year, of passing stolen jewelry around (Big Brown Eyes, Desire, Florida Special). It is mounted with atmospheric travel shots, big blue & white sundecks, the usual competent Michael performance. Sample line...
...have paid no regard to His Majesty's exalted rank," declared the grave examiners of Belgrade College last week to Dowager Queen Marie and the Regents of Yugoslavia. "Unanimously we report that King Peter has passed his entrance examination for the third class of Belgrade College with great distinction...
...Grave anxiety in the Philippine Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes was a matter Don Manuel did not mention. Nine days prior, from Jolo in the Sulu Archipelago, His Highness Padukka Mahasari Manaluna Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram II, Sultan of Sulu and North Borneo, Judge of Agama, lineal descendant of the Prophet, had ascended to enjoy the limitless quantities of gold, jewels, silks, dates, rice, spitted lamb and beautiful women which await the Faithful in the Mohammedan Paradise. The Sultan, who for some years was the only sovereign reigning under the U. S. flag, lived on the tribute...