Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Moody was for taking in a minority report and declaring flatly against any modification of Prohibition. With Nominee Smith's stand for modification so well-known, this would undoubtedly have precipitated grave trouble in the convention. Senator Glass was the mediator, finally, and even Bishop Cannon approved the law-enforcement phrases which were unanimously adopted...
After betraying Wu and seizing Peking (see p. 17) the Christian War Lord took a grave step. Until then the Republican Government had fulfilled the term of an agreement signed with the head of the Manchu Dynasty, in 1912, whereby the abdicated Boy Emperor was guaranteed the retention of his palace in Peking and a pension of 4,000,000 taels per year. Feng brushed this contract aside, ousted the Boy Emperor from his palace, and gave that young man such good reason to suspect that he would be murdered that, with the aid of his British tutor...
Before politicians loomed the serious prospect of a schism within the State Church so grave as perhaps to lead to its disestablishment-a possibility seriously dwelt upon, last week, by Mr. Baldwin...
...scene-the execution of Nurse Edith Cavell-has been practically killed. Sybil Thorndike, who plays the role of Nurse Cavell, is shown facing a German firing squad. One German soldier refuses to raise his rifle when the command is given. There is a pause, a blot-out; then the grave of Nurse Cavell is flashed on the screen. In the original film, the disobedient soldier was shot dead by a German officer and the shooting of Nurse Cavell followed. Many Britishers and Americans, as well as Germans, regret that Dawn was ever filmed. It is too late now to decide...
...still spin a worthy tale of peasant simplicities and spectral horrors. Dreary and revengeful, General Lowenskold's ghost hovered near the priceless ring that had been stolen from his tomb. The unhappy thief suffered?his barns burned down, his wife was drowned?but he dared not confess looting a grave, mortal offense. In time, the jewel of ill wake passed with its spectral guardian through unwitting, but nevertheless harassed, owners to the very descendants of Lowenskold. Far from treating his heirs more kindly, the ghostly grandsire bedevilled the son of the house with a wasting disease. But for a lovelorn...