Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...find more congenial friends among the mummies. Certainly, if Premier Nitti advice were followed, many of our present difficulties would soon disappear. Life would be much easier if we could all recognize a joke when we saw it, even it were officially classed as an "international problem" or a "grave symptom of social upheaval." The worries of the General Public have reduced him to the pitiably bedraggled state in which he usually appears in our newspaper cartoons. To him we recommend Premier Nitti's remedy, "guaranteed to effect a speedy recovery." In good humor is to be found the cure...
...uneasy; it is in a condition of world psychology. The war has left us something of the spirit of unrest and stampede. We have this great strike coming on, which is being organized by I. W. W. elements; a labor organization within Labor itself. It is a very grave and far-reaching condition. I am giving up my leave and going back to Chicago, as I think the situation warrants it. We do not know what is going to develop. It brings the matter to us forcibly that we are now threatened by a rather difficult situation. We are going...
Correct Attire: sweater, coat and trousers of a different material, army shoes or bedroom slippers and last year's hat. No embargo on clean linen. Any student caught wearing new clothing will be pronounced guilty of a grave breach of etiquette. YALE NEWS...
...reports from the Ruhr district have until recently been so fragmentary that we are in no position to judge of the case as a whole. From French sources we learn, however, that the German troop movements constituted a distinct violation of the Treaty, of such a grave nature as to warrant the use of extreme measures in opposition...
...over the books of some of the mighty masters of fiction with their galaxy of robust old speech, and words and philosophy that men have come to venerate and love so much that now they are called classic, then has that individual done his mind and himself a grave injustice. He has denied himself the opportunity to cultivate his mind by the infiltration of rare thoughts, and to harvest the luscious vintage of fine old speech and bottled sunshine from the vineyards of fiction by the world's fine masters of literature...