Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King Sisowath Monivong likes also to take part in affairs of state. Last week there were grave affairs for his attention...
...have the Government restate its post-war aims, so as to reassure Europe's remaining small nations that Britain would be a better master than Germany, Mr. Churchill bluntly explained that, in the eyes of some people, Britain's very survival is in question. This was a grave new low in British fact-facing. It faced the new fact that now, after seven solid weeks of hammering from the skies, at least some sections of British opinion required the vital assurance Mr. Churchill sought to give. London could take it -but for how long...
...Broadway, is stationed now in the lobby of a Child's Broadway restaurant. No stooges participate in his shows. Everyone is welcomed to his mike except roaring drunks and obvious lunatics. He entices clients from Manhattan crowds by rumbling: "Step up, brother, stop your mad rush to the grave," proceeds to subject them to a barrage of jests, jibes and singularly unabashed questions. At high speed, he whirls through a quiz that in cludes such inquiries as: "What's your name, what do you do, are you in love, what is love, are you a dreamer...
...Whom the Bell Tolls is 1) a great Hemingway love story; 2) a tense story of adventure in war; 3) a grave and sombre tragedy of Spanish peasants fighting for their lives. But above all it is about death. The plot is simple, about a bridge over a deep gorge behind Franco's lines. Robert Jordan, a young American International Brigader, is ordered to blow up the bridge. He must get help from the guerrillas who live in Franco's territory. The bridge must be destroyed at the precise moment when a big Loyalist offensive begins...
...Shakespeare, had little money, many children. Danny therefore lived with Grandmother O'Flaherty, shiftless Uncle Ned, passionate, self-pitying Aunt Margaret, Uncle Al who sold shoes on the road, read Chesterfield and Boswell. Father and Son traces Jim's decline through heart disease to his consecrated grave, Danny's rise through high school and adolescence to a job like his father's at an express agency...