Word: grave
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall, Republican lawyer and former board president, called the majority decision "little less than condoning . . . bigotry. . . ." Said he: May Quinn should have been fired. The New York Herald Tribune seconded him: "So mild a rebuke for such an arrant affront to the cause of mutual self-respect constitutes a grave setback to the cause of tolerance in our public schools...
Medieval Christians confessed their sins on Shrove Tuesday (Mardi gras). Grave offenders were assigned to public penitence (sackcloth and ashes, strict fasting, no baths) until finally absolved of their sins on Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday. In those days, religion was directly concerned with maintaining public order; lawbreakers were ordered to join the Lenten penitents rather than be thrown into the town lockup...
...Betray Me." In 1929 an accomplished grave robber came to Egypt. Professor Pierre Montet of Strasbourg University, well financed by a French subsidy, dug for more than ten years in the salty soil near the ruins of Tanis. At last he found the tomb. In 1940 Pharaoh Psousennes, with all his treasure, was exposed to modern stares...
...discharged from the Navy, the sailor turns up grinning at the door before his wife has even made the bed in their new apartment. To complicate matters, there are Janitor Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, who operates the apartment with frenetic care; an English-language-butchering Rumanian siren (Audrey Totter); a grave young pot tycoon named Freddie Potts (Hume Cronyn') ; and a rival potter (Reginald Owen...
...believe that the Secret Service acted directly under divine providence), and looking somewhat like one of the later Antonines, Colonel Starling soon found himself on the White House Detail. For almost 30 years, first as an "SS man" and later as chief of "the Detail," the Colonel suffered the grave responsibility of guarding the lives of five U.S. Presidents from the homicidal reflexes of their fellow citizens. The result of his intimate observations of his charges (from Woodrow Wilson to Roosevelt) are these remarkably readable memoirs (written by Thomas Sugrue...