Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times in January, and it is possible that your reporter has erred in confusing this incident with the one recorded in your journal. But, although there is no doubt an implied insult in the act of expectoration upon one's person, yet surely this is a matter less grave than the flinging of dung, at least so far as the recipient is concerned...
Last week, for the first time in many a month, the "Spokesman" received no mention in conference reports. Though laymen failed to note his demise, Democratic editors and politicians cheered his death, danced on his grave. Said the New York Times: "President Coolidge ... did well to get rid of him." Said the New York World: "The deceased lived a short life but a merry one." Said Senator Norris of Nebraska, nominal Republican: "The Bolsheviks got him." Three months ago Senator Reed of Missouri had said: "Let us have done with this sham...
...weeks a U. S. Senator said to a newspaper friend: "Seven men are running the Senate and I am one of them." That man was Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, who last week died of heart disease in his Indianapolis home. He was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery, near the grave of James Whitcomb Riley. Onetime Senator Beveridge was famed as orator, author, statesman. While at De Pauw University he won an intercollegiate oratorical medal, awarded in another year to the late Senator Robert Marion LaFollette. Entering the Senate in 1899 he was an ardent Imperialist, supporting McKinley's "manifest doctrine...
President Coolidge proclaimed that "the situation is indeed grave," appointed a special committee- Secretaries Hoover, Mellon, Wilbur and Dwight Filley Davis-to cooperate with the Red Cross, which called for a $5,000,000 flood relief fund...
...After conferences with the principal prelates of the Mexican Episcopate, these prelates facing grave charges based upon undeniable proofs and facing the possibility of submitting to trial, agreed to leave the country, no doubt to avoid responsibility, and decide to abandon Mexico...