Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tell about the Mississippi; and every page or two, he would come out from behind his screen and have a cigar with the reader?or a drink, maybe. Mr. Boyd does not use tobacco, in a literary way. His style is as impersonal as the river, and as grave. But, on that unlaughing surface, a boat is reflected, slipping down the river under a moon like a golden poker chip; people on board eating, drinking, fighting, making love?ladies in lace pantaloons?bad men with aces in their cuffs?all dead, long...
News from the Spanish zone in Morocco continued to be grave. Director Primo Rivera, head of the military directorate that rules Spain, caused the War Ministry to issue an insignificant communication which purported to be significant...
...inability of the Spaniards to quell the rebels in their area of Morocco caused grave apprehension in France and Italy. The map of Northern Africa depicts four areas whose inhabitants are under the suzerainty of foreign Powers: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya. Morocco is mainly under French dominion and is a remarkable example of how low the great Shereefian Empire has fallen; for, still a monarchy, it is subjected to the French Republic and is now of little or no political importance. Algeria and Tunisia are likewise French possessions, while the greater part of Libya belongs to Italy under the name...
Recently, the Department of Agriculture, after grave and profound researches for "several years," issued a statement that the U. S. farmer is not getting an adequate return on his investment or for his personal labor. This is based on figures taken in 1920-1922. The farmer, according to the Department, is not receiving any "managerial reward." The impression conveyed by the statement is that the U. S. farmer is much abused, and that something should be done about...
Koussevitzky has always been more concerned with the reality of achievement than with the appearance of it. For diverse interests he substitutes his great and lonely passion; he indulges no hobbies, tolerates in himself no eccentricities. In countenance, he is grave; in dress and manner, he resembles a cosmopolitan man of business. Only his hands and eyes admit the implication that this business has to do with Art. He was born in Tver, in Northern Russia, and received his first employment as double bass in the Moscow Imperial Opera. He rose to become a conductor and toured Europe with...