Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political grave of the Ohio gang, the little flowers of indictment still grow every spring, scenting the air with the perfume of scandal and the breath of alleged corruption. Only last week another blossom opened. In Manhattan a grand jury indicted one time Attorney General Harry Daugherty, his good friend, the late Jesse Smith, John T. King, onetime Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, and Thomas W. Miller, former Alien Property Custodian, for conspiracy to defraud the Government. The charge was that certain stock of the American Metal Co. was seized by the Alien Property Custodian as German property during...
...printers, machine managers, stereotypers and pressmen walk out on strike rather than send the editorial on its way. Thus the Daily Mail, "largest newspaper in the British Empire," failed to appear. The Times declared: "Unless counsels of reason prevail we are within a few hours of the most grave domestic menace which has hung over this nation since the fall of the Stuarts...
...Denmark, diggers in a Slesvig bog, struck whale bones six feet down, unearthed the skeleton of a prehistoric species of leviathan which experts suggested might have been swept to his grave, 24 miles inland, by a tidal wave...
...public libraries in St. Louis and Detroit, the state universities of Minnesota and Texas. Poring over a draftboard has made him near-sighted ; he wears a pince-nez. He dresses dapperly; has a manner at once alert and suave. All his work, like his face, possesses a balanced, grave handsomeness: it meets all demands with that superb adequacy which is the aptest test of architecture, an art in which inspiration must yield to practicability. An architect who was always inspired would be a failure. On one of those great occasions when Cass Gilbert was inspired, he saw a tower lift...
...harmful nuisance. They also constitute a reflection on the steadfastness and sobriety of a portion of the community. . . . The only circumstances under which, in a country with the resources, the resiliency and the basic elements of ours, a temporary descent into the cyclone cellar becomes warranted are-leaving aside grave foreign complications- either manifestations of stark and persistent overproduction or overtrading, the advent of a major credit disturbance, or acute monetary stringency. None of these circumstances exists today or is even remotely likely to occur...