Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar-his Boston poems include a "Charles River Nocturne," glimpses of the Common-and he writes of autumn woods and winter nights. A dominant note in his poems is loneliness, but it is a loneliness the poet accepts without regret, and it is enriched with memories of childhood, with grave and unpretentious reflections on destiny and death, with flashes of warmly human or amusingly discordant scenes that the world offers for his attention. Cool and detached, the poems give little evidence of intellectual curiosity. Robert Fitzgerald can write vividly of boys playing marbles in a yard, speculating without passion...
Fellow 12., certainly not a grind; Fellow 13., reasonably intelligent, but scarcely brilliant . . . grave sense of humor; Fellow 14., intellectually on his toes, confirmed pacifist, sees through things easily; Fellow 15., not completely submerged in studies...
...John Roosevelt officially became a national political issue when the Republican National Committee suggested that the boys take to heart their father's plea for safe motoring, addressed last month to the American Automobile Association convention in Chicago. ¶ In Warm Springs, President Roosevelt once again expressed grave concern over U. S. motor fatalities, announced that Texas' Representative James P. Buchanan had suggested to him passage of a Federal law forbidding interstate transportation of automobiles capable of more than 50 m.p.h...
Accompanied by a statesman turning in his grave...
...Standing in Arlington National Cemetery over the grave of the Unknown Soldier on Armistice Day, 1921, Warren G. Harding declared: "There must, there shall be a commanding voice of conscious civilization against armed warfare. . . . Knowing that the world is noting this expression of the Republic's mindfulness, it is fitting to say that [the Unknown Soldier's] sacrifice and that of the millions dead shall not be in vain...