Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Windsor he discovered that an abscess had formed under the wound through which King George's lung had been drained. The abscess broke naturally and was draining successfully-not a serious matter ordinarily, but grave indeed to anyone who had been as sick as King George...
...simply Professor Rogers's way of startling the bourgeois young engineers. Or it may be that, as he intimated, they had been so long living under the shadow of Harvard's snobbery that a little irony had to be expended upon the contrast. Yet it was with a grave appearance of sincerity that he urged the graduates to study carefully the snob in order to discover from him the true rules of success in life. All the old maxims about working and waiting, study and industry, are to be thrown aside in favor of push, impudence, tuft-hunting, insolence...
Popular recognition and public gratitude to the officials in charge of examinations has never been wide the very nature of the office prevents such a possibility. But there is a kind of silent regard in the breasts of all for the proctor who recognizes his grave responsibilities to his examinees, and above all does not giggle upon first looking at the papers which in a minute or two he will distribute among anxious hands...
Bishop Cauchon was scarcely cold in his grave before Pope Calixtus IV excommunicated him, while the enraged Rouenais dug up his body and flung it into the town sewer. Last week, further restitution was made to the Maid of Orleans...
...announce the critical illness of their son, Howard. . . . He shot himself because we refused him permission to marry until he was 21. ... The shooting took place in our home and our son was taken to a hospital in the Rue Puccini. . . . Our son is now in an extremely grave condition. We wish to emphasize that we had no objection to the girl, but only opposed the marriage because...