Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proclamation and crowning of the new Pope seem partly a revulsion from those articles he opened with a bang. At any rate they show what he, whom Henry James befriended long ago, can do when he tries. In between ceremonies he visits the Papal Observatory, Castel Gandolfo and the grave of Keats, muses about Michelangelo. The scarcely-hoped-for election of Cardinal Pacelli, that saintly cleric, assures him that a spiritual fountain is still there...
Joan Fontaine's performance as the young Mrs. Winter provides a wholesome whiff of sincerity in an atmosphere laden with sleazy pluto-romanticism. The other characters--including grave, moustached Mr. Oliveir--are the stereotyped masks which haunt every unsuccessful attempt at fiction. Readers of Miss Dumaurier's novel will notice to their amusement that under Mr. Hays' jurisdiction a husband does not shoot his wife, and that villains do not get away with their crimes as if there were neither justice nor morals in Hollywood...
...Charles M. Wesson. Cagey, capable Major General Wesson stood up for the Garand ("the best semi-automatic rifle ever considered by the Army"). When Congressmen wanted to know who originally sponsored the Garand, General Wesson passed the buck to the Infantry. He also confirmed a rumor which reflects more grave ly on Army bureaucrats than on their new rifle. In the fourth year (1939) of Garand tests, the Army discovered a de fect so serious that a new barrel had to be designed. As of last Feb. 16, the Army had on hand 28,088 Garands with the faulty barrel...
...Congressman Powers' informants was Major General Milton A. Reckord, who is head of the Maryland National Guard and executive vice president of the authoritative (though civilian) National Rifle Association. "My opinion," testified General Reckord, "is that the War Department has made a very grave mistake. . . ." Just how grave the mistake may have been, General Reckord's N. R. A. disclosed in the May issue of its American Rifleman...
...Charley Devens '32, one of the former greats of Crimson baseball, a star-studded alumni aggregation will return from the grave tomorrow afternoon to tangle with Coach Floyd Stahl's renovated outfit made up solely of Juniors and Sophomores...