Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kissed her. Thereupon Carrie burst into tears, put her hands over her eyes, cried out: "I am ruined! I am ruined!" Rising to the requirements of the situation, Dr. Gloyd became Carrie's husband. Shortly after, he developed into a confirmed alcoholic, went to a "drunkard's grave...
...William Joynson-Hicks, Secretary of State for Home Affairs, took a step of such grave moment last week, as to threaten his own position in the Baldwin Cabinet, and render probable a break in the diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Soviet Russia...
...grave or serious in his demeanor: seeking to uphold the dignity of his cloth...
...Africa completing the work of the gorilla-collecting museum expedition on which her husband, Naturalist Carl Ethan Akeley, died last autumn. She described the manner of his death after fever, convalescence, overwork and an intestinal hemorrhage in camp 9,500 feet up on Mount Mikeno, Belgian Congo; described his grave, beneath moss-hung trees and among blooming wild orchids on "his old trail in the beautiful forest of gnomes and fairies...
Ramsay Macdonald, onetime Labor Premier, now visiting the U. S.: "It is with emotion that I behold the empty grave where lie our ruined industries...