Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the standpoint of the politician, the business of government is but an interlude between elections. One battle is over and it may well rest in its grave. But the flotsam of this struggle is the foundation of the next. What is this foundation for the several parties...
...plain, blunt, simple-hearted countryman. . . . For good or for evil, his personality entirely lacks the flick of a cocktail. He is genuine cider. The small pinched-up eyes, with their uplifted brows, have the shrewdness of the shepherd rather than the sharpness of the merchant; the deep, grave, kindly voice has no note of drawing-room or art coterie, but the tone of a slow, pondering, decisive country mind. He is a man of action, but his activity suggests the fields and not the city. He is quick with humour and not a sluggard in the matter...
...protest against the exclusion law. In this country a man who committed suicide, however elaborately, in rebuke to the foreign policy of Japan would rightly be regarded as a fool; one active worker would be of more value to the cause than a thousand mute inhabitants of the grave. Yet in Japan the illogical and unknown hero is now to be interred in a military cemetery where lie the bodies of Marquis Okuma and of General Nogi, the hero of the Russo-Japanese...
...result of the election has more than justified the profound confidence which I have always had in the political judgment and common sense of the British people when confronted with an issue of grave importance. In this hour of victory, I offer my grateful thanks to all who labored in the cause which we have so much at heart...
...Edgar Lee Masters-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The Spoon River Anthology was published, first serially, then in book form, just before the War. It consisted of compressed, ironic little dramas in verse-the biting epitaphs of the dead of Spoon River, the voices of the inarticulate suddenly articulate from the grave. It was variously welcomed, but always with interest, its powerful originality indisputable. The War is over, but people are still dying in Spoon River. The foreign born have come into their own. Spoon River has become "a ganglion for the monster brain Chicago." An addition has been made...