Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summary of some of the accusations made at the inquiry, Ewing Laporte, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, was mentioned as being under fire in connection with the lease of a hospital site at Excelsior Springs, Mo. Last week, Mr. Laporte, by letter, declared that he felt it a grave injustice to himself that his name should appear in an article with such a heading. He said: " I have little but my reputation, which such aspersions as yours injure sadly...
This sort of thing is characteristic of singers. Caruso in the midst of his fatal illness sang a performance in Brooklyn when he should have been in bed. Half way through he suffered a hemorrhage of the throat had to stop. His rashness helped him to the grave...
...funeral of the fallen monarchist troops took place in Munich. General von Ludendorff headed the procession with the mother of his late servant, Kurt Neubauder, who was killed in the "beer hall brawl," resting upon his arm. At the grave the General said: "I promise to devote the remainder of my life to the cause for which this man fell. I shall never desert...
...remain purely advisory, like the Department of Agriculture, but will attempt to interfere in local enterprises, or at least force uniform policies upon institutions and systems which ought to be free. Propaganda again! With all the advantages which there would certainly be in centralization, there might indeed be grave disadvantages. Municipal politics have ruined the school system of more than one city...
...doubled the power of his more famous brother. The second, a self made Canadian, has, since the war, become a well known figure in the newspaper world. The balance of newspaper power has apparently gone askew and some English papers feel that this concentration constitutes a grave danger to freedom of thought in the press...