Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the eyes of a prophet Mr. Adams saw that the tendency carried with it grave defects and argued from the condition in America and the gradual spread of democracy in England that Oxford and Cambridge themselves must in time bow their heads to the "gods of efficiency and utility...
SEVENTH HEAVEN?Helen Menken injects a great thrill into the slums of Paris with aid of a depraved sister, a romantic sewer diver, and Eloise, a taxicab with three cylinders in the grave...
...unconsoled but not wholly broken to the ground, he set about beginning the only task that remained for him? the designing of a monument for George's grave...
...Columbus, Ohio, Senator Frank B. Willis of that state told of a visit he had made to Bowling Green, Mo. There, said he, was the grave of former Speaker Champ Clark, neglected; with his own penknife he cut away the weeds and in a speech " censured the people for neglecting the grave of one of the ablest men who ever sat in Congress...
...Boston Evening Transcript, a contributor recounted his impressions of Portugal: "I had the benefit of just four interviews, or contacts, on the subject of politics, with Lisbon men during the day. The first was with a grave middle-aged senhor, of superior appearance, who checked our hats at the Monumental Club. I ventured a Viva la, Republica as I passed in my hat. He looked at me in a manner positively icy, and said nothing. I made up my mind that he was a Monarchist.* "Next in conversation with the castellan at the Royal Palace at Cintra. This expansive gentleman...