Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show is an incredible-looking harpy who sings "Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair" like it ain't never been sung before! The story is one of those back-mike jobs about auditions, and talent, and Orson Welles's Mars broadcast. A few tears are dropped on vaudeville's grave, but the general message is that entertainment will go marching on. "Hullabaloo" is not too strong marching, though...
...grave, critical 1941, Franklin Roosevelt wanted a simple, inexpensive inauguration. The parade stands his committee is building extend only four blocks, are designed to seat only 19,000 people. In 1937 they continued all the way to the Justice Department and had room for 40,000; the President sat in an $11,900 model of Andrew Jackson's house. The Hermitage. This year the President will sit in a reviewing stand which he designed himself: a plain Colonial doorway, covered with a single coat of cheap paint...
...London a grave disservice with such misrepresentation of facts. . . . You suggest that Londoners are living on the last spurt of energy which so often galvanizes a dying man. This is untrue and unworthy of TIME...
...Grave, grey Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler forewent the "merry" in greetings to his Columbia students, wished them instead "a safe, quiet and fortunate Christmas given over to strengthening ourselves for whatever stupendous task of idealism and faith that the year 1941 will bring...
...philosophy the speeches were a world apart, but their likeness was striking. Neither was polished. Hitler used too many theses and thoses and Lord Lothian too many buts. Each tacitly admitted grave military weaknesses on his own side. Both agreed that the war is not war but a revolution; that it must be fought to the bitter end; that Germany is fighting not only Great Britain, but the world of capitalism and free enterprise as represented by Britain...