Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cyrus E. Woods, slender, gray-suited, American Ambassador to Madrid; Colonel George Harvey, tall, horn-spectacled, with square-topped derby; Alanson B. Houghton, clean-shaven, florid and grave, Ambassador to Berlin, came down the gangplank of the George Washington together, back from Europe with the usual Ambassadorial truisms...
...Russia has any intention of going to war. The most that can happen is the abrogation of the trade agreement and the consequent withdrawal of the British Commercial Mission from Russia. Russia has proved no El Dorado to British interests, so that the entire question ceases to have any grave import. Russia maintains that her territorial waters extend to twelve miles from the coast line, whereas the international agreement on territorial waters states three miles...
...Grave Gatti Rules the Proud and Profitable Metropolitan Manhattan Bulk. The close of the opera season in Manhattan brought the usual many long articles of sum mary and commentary from the critics, and might have inspired the philosopher with a few reflections. Perhaps the most striking feature to be noted in a review of the 1922-23 Metropolitan season is the large number of performances and of operas performed. In 23 weeks Mr. Gatti gave 169 performances of 40 different operas. When you con sider the amount of preparation and rehearsal that even a moderately spectacular opera needs, these...
Gatti. This impresario is personally very interesting, a man whose grave dignity of face, figure, speech and manner is of public note. His intimates will tell you that his aloof reserve and unapproachableness, which qualities are so valuable in handling high-strung singers, are rooted in shyness, that the. man is a bookworm, with the sensitive timidity of his kind. Gatti began his life as a civil engineer. He has a first-rate mind, with all the shrewd subtlety that one attributes to Italians. He distinctly has the grand manner. It is this, perhaps, that makes him reluctant to talk...
...that nation which is without sin cast the first stone. Individual acts and words, however, make a bridge for international understanding. Last week, before 5,000 German-Americans, Cardinal Michael Ritter von Faulhaber of Munich, admitted freely that his countrymen and the Imperial German Government had made grave mistakes both before and during the war. He apologized personally for the sinking of the Lusitania, the invasion of Belgium and other acts of his fatherland. He said he was not representing the government, and would account for what he said only to himself. But it strikes a responsive chord in many...