Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Germany the Chancellor (Prime Minister) is expected always to retain his dignity, never to lose his temper. Therefore Dr. Marx stated to the German press with chill reserve the following grave charges...
...grave, Mme. Jon Bratiano* swayed and seemed nigh to fainting. She was embraced and steadied by the Dowager Queen Marie, who, turning toward the coffin as it was lowered into the earth, apostrophized thus: "Great and good friend of my youth and of my riper years! As long as there is still breath in me, for all that I am worth I shall try with God's help to carry on and uphold King Ferdinand's and your great work. Amen...
...completely and so admirably in his Napoleon, now applies it to a condensed explanation of men whose genius has been exposed in their actions. Da Vinci writing down the wild & enormous range of Nature's behavior; Stanley voyaging into Africa to find Livingston; Cecil Rhodes thinking of his grave on a windy hill; Rembrandt staring at his face in many mirrors; Byron, Balzac, Shakespeare; and Voltaire writing his thin and bitter curses. These, and many another, pass under Author Ludwig's swift and penetrating scrutiny. In these brief sketches there cannot be the breadth and totality of detailed...
There died in Lynchburg, Virginia the other day Mr. W.D. Diuguid, a man who, more than any hero of Poe, was dogged into his grave by an obsession. The fact that his name was a palindrome, that is, read the same backward as forward, changed the life of Mr. Diuguid. For palindromes, like Mary's lamb, followed him where'er he went, and since his only fortune was a modest undertaking business, this was not far. The only women who ever meant anything in his life were named Anna, Meem, and Hannah. It is therefore easy to understand...
Arriving at the cemetary which surrounds Novo Devichi, the coffin was carried to the edge of the grave by Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek, Kamenev, Rakovsky and an unspecified member of the Joffe family-all Oppositionists. Foreign Commissar Georg Tchitcherin, representing the Central Committee of the Communist Party, spoke first, paying an eloquent tribute to M. Joffe's services and ability as a diplomat. But the greatest of all the speeches was that of Leon Trotsky, the Communist outcast...