Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition: Bone dry, with this advance upon his platform and Mr. Coolidge: "Common sense compels us to realize that grave abuses have occurred-abuses which must be remedied." Later, he named the abolition of the saloon as a cause of U. S. prosperity...
Behind the hearse of Stefan Raditch, walked, according to the lowest cabled estimates, slightly over 1% of the population of Jugoslavia.* At the climax of this prodigious demonstration, a wreath of thorns was laid upon the grave. From the wreath dangled, on a golden wire, the Serbian bullet which killed Croat Raditch...
...Bedford tasted its first grave disorder. Picketeers banged the walls of their cells, shrieked foreign curses, sang ribald songs. Outside headquarters a mob of 10,000 seemed to spring out of the pavement, hooting and jeering. Police summoned guardsmen. Strikers retreated, their faces turned aside from bayonets. New Bedford rested in an electric calm...
...Anglo-French understanding of any real value has been arrived at, it must embrace compromises respecting submarines and categories. But the "Secropen Diplomacy" stunt of last week is open to a grave suspicion that it may be empty of any real compromise, and designed simply as a blatant advertisement that France and Great Britain stand together diplomatically however unready they may be to limit armaments...
Therefore, at the funeral of M. Graf, strong peasant hands seized the bodice and skirt of his widow, tore them off, flung her naked into his open grave, and pelted in dirt...