Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...superstitious, however, would not have a happy lot; they would find little relief from constant anxiety. Imagine the thirteenth day of all thirteen months landing on Friday. Then again, this new calendar may serve as a valuable antidote: if those who now entertain grave apprehensions regarding the number thirteen are still able to enjoy life under the proposed system, the time is at hand when two-dollar bills will no longer be scoffed at, and one match will suffice to light three cigarettes...
When Lawyer Tulkinghorn, starting to make good his threats, does not pay for her spying, Hortense shoots him. Lady Dedlock is suspected and dies on her lover's grave; the marriage bells ring in the last...
...practical standpoint, even the Big-Little Mahatma. As leader of the Swarajist Party in the Legislative Assembly at Delhi, the Pandit is an intensely active and practicing politician. His official status with the British Raj is second only to his unofficial might as President of the Hindu Congress. Grave and deeply read in law, the Pandit is also a mob-kindling orator, and moreover a zealot who gave up his lucrative legal practice in 1920, when Pied-Piper Gandhi piped "Non-Co-operation...
With infinite trepidation the new, tenth Pius looked about for some more worldly figure on whom to lean in the grave duty of administering affairs of state. At that time young Merry del Val, only 38, had acted as secretary of the Conclave of Cardinals and was director of the Academy of Noble Ecclesiastics at Rome, where he had studied for the priesthood...
Robert Cecil. ". . . his presence was sweet and grave. . . . He was all mild reasonableness-or so it appeared, until he left his chair, stood up, and unexpectedly revealed the stunted discomfort of deformity. Then another impression came upon one-the uneasiness produced by an enigma: what could the combination of that beautifully explicit countenance with that shameful, crooked posture really betoken? He returned to the table, and once more took up his quill; all, once more, was perspicuous serenity...