Word: grave
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Eagle Beak, styling himself "the Hero of Gallipoli," though his role in that British shambles was hardly stellar, pointed out over Harar Province and said portentously, "Out there will be the grave of Italian Fascism. When the Italian native troops hear of ME they will desert...
...clubbed to death; in small Piazze, Italy. Worshipped and called "miracle man" by villagers, Dr. Rinaldi treated such ailments as arthritis by a secret method involving injections from mysterious phials. He visited patients at night clad in ghostly white vestments. The secret of his treatment he took to his grave. Upon Dr. Rinaldi's unexplained death, Toscanini, who had annually obtained relief from him, hastened to Piazze for the funeral...
...Knoxville, Tenn.'s Asbury Cemetery, the parents of the late Pete Kreis, automobile racer killed in a test run at Indianapolis last year, finished installing over his grave an 11-ft.-by-5-ft. monument showing a racing car hurtling over a speedway retaining wall. Said his mother Ida: "Pete always liked things different...
...shade over six feet tall and able to look taller, Philip Merivale has a deep, rich voice which wraps itself expertly around the most ponderous periods. He has a self-confident way of handling capes, cloaks and togas. His grave, bony face seems as incapable of timidity as it is of humor. He has beetling mobile brows and eyes whose whites can gleam with tragic fury in a sepia-colored face, as they did last week in Manhattan when Crosby Gaige opened his production of Othello, with Mr. Merivale playing the stout-hearted Moor whom jealousy made...
...Arabia. When Lawrence, in order to get to Arabia, engineered his release from work in the intelligence service in Cairo, the Arabian revolt had prematurely broken out, was hampered by lack of direction, lack of leadership, lack of military experience. These factors Lawrence and his associates supplied. Choosing Feisal, grave, tactful son of the Sherif of Mecca, as the best of the Arab leaders, Lawrence developed tactics that his friend Liddell Hart, English military expert, later characterized as those of dispersion, "striking at the materials . . . avoiding engagements with the men," substituting for battle "a creeping paralysis produced by an intangible...