Word: grave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned out, sole witness to support garrulous, bespectacled, aging Mr. Mitchell's grave charges was Mr. Mitchell. A small-town lawyer from Springfield, Mo., he became "the original Roosevelt man in Missouri," was rewarded after the New Deal's victory by being made the biggest Missourian in the Roosevelt official family. Early last autumn, Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper came to the conclusion that he and Mr. Mitchell could not get along, asked for his resignation. As a sop, Mr. Mitchell was offered a job in the graveyard of RFC's legal department or as Minister...
...home towns, native States wait to see how their wandering boys turn out before they boom their claims to parenthood. Early U. S. frontiersmen, born in the Original 13 States, were doubtful characters. Even those who made good generally had to bury their crudities a long time in the grave before the genteel seaboard was ready to honor itself by claiming them as native sons. Few have waited so long as great Sam Houston...
Meantime, Herbert Hoover, traveling eastward for a little fishing in Vermont, continued to make headlines by running into more Republican friends, including Governor Charles M. Smith; going to Plymouth, standing with bowed head at the grave of Calvin Coolidge...
...strange movements was red hot. Author Bynner, in collaboration with Arthur Davison Ficke, dashed off a few nonsensical poems, signed them with a pseudonym, "Emanuel Morgan," declared them expressions of a new esthetic principle called spectrum. While the real identity of the author was carefully concealed critics and poets gravely debated the merits of this bogus verse and school, argued solemnly whether Poet Emanuel Morgan was a genius or a fraud. In Guest Book Author Bynner again reveals his keen eye for literary and other pretensions, his delight in exposing them with wit and a minimum of malice. Less frankly...
...have always disliked the "smug" aura in which the editors of the CRIMSON cloak themselves and their policies. That the CRIMSON should set itself up as the final court of judgment over University Hall, the Faculty, and the undergraduates, causes me grave gastric disturbance...