Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concluding with the words: 'We are going to counter-attack.' " The Bullard valor is concealed beneath a mild, diminutive exterior. Yet the soldierly Bullard conscience might serve as a model for all the retired military, so often and so strongly does it move its possessor to issue grave warnings to all good citizens against the insidious dangers of peace talk and unpreparedness...
Oscar is heavy, thickset, grave-eyed...
Then, when obviously the ship was in grave peril, Captain Carey should have sent out his SOS. He delayed this too long. The lifeboats were in good condition, but were lowered with difficulty on account of the extreme list of the vessel. "No systematic effort was made to get the passengers into these boats...
...With grave simplicity and courtesy the Municipal Council of the little Polish town of Bydgoszcz gathered last week in their still, solemn council room. On a table was a check for $100,000 left "to the poor Jews of Bydgoszcz," by one Mrs. Leonard Cohen, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. With gravity the Council deliberated, then ordered that a polite note be penned to the executors of the will refusing the money, stating that "there are no poor Jews in Bydgoszcz...
Grischa was shot, having meticulously joined his own coffin, lustily dug his own grave, manfully marched to his death...