Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They laid Samuel Gompers to rest in a grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at Tarrytown, beside the Hudson. As the coffin was lowered, the white lambskin apron of a Master Mason was dropped upon it. There they left him, not far from the earthly remains of Andrew Carnegie, William Rockefeller, John D. Archbold...
...Nelson, B.C, members of the Russian religious colony of Doukhobors kept nightly vigils at the grave of their late leader, Peter Veregin, murdered by a bomb while riding in a railroad train last month (TIME, Nov. 17). So great was the Doukhobors' faith in Veregin (many passionately believe him to have been a reincarnation of Jesus of Nazareth), that they expected a sign from his spirit to guide them in their choice of a new leader...
...such a wonderful history of vitality and pugnaciousness, cannot die. If you think it can, you are wrong, and history will prove it to you." Then, with a change of tone - a tone of kindly exhortation instead of domineering challenge - the Premier enunciated his peroration: "The hour is grave, and you know it. But you will be equal to the gravity of this moment, because your minds are illuminated by the thought of the King and of the destinies of our country, now and in the future." The Senate showed confidence in the Premier by 206 to 54 votes. Thirty...
...tempted to linger over the editorials and reviews, for reasons which will become apparent. Under the chastely classical heading of "47 Obitt", the editors bestrew the grave of the Workshop with a few choice pleas and wave the reader on to more extended articles on the subject in the body of the magazine; they further regretfully observe, in the succeeding editorial, that Mrs. Grundy, in the person of the Library authorities, persists in seeing it through. In the department of book reviews, three new books are reviewed at length, and five more are graced with brief notes, always capable...
...Manhattan, the Beethoven Association* gave a concert. Sedate and grave was the music heard, the august, the decorous, the lovely works of the great masters of yesterday-Schubert, Schumann, Haydn. One departure from classicism was made-the rendering of Chausson's Chanson Perpétuelle by Mme. Stanley, supported by a stringed quartet. "Very bad," said Critic Deems Taylor of this departure. But for the works august, sedate, all critics had praise. The chamber music of Haydn was the pièce de résistance. Next to the master, Beethoven, the darling of those who attend the Society...