Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...membership of the National Education Association. There is an annual meeting in July, when a goodly portion of them swarm into the biggest hall of the city lucky enough to have been named "convention city" the year before. It is a great vacation junket as well as a grave pedagogical palaver, a great time of speechmaking, report-reading, handshaking and theorizing...
...December evening through which the 19th Century was creeping at last to its grave, a silver-haired gentleman of broken but distinguished appearance made his way from the Grand Avenue Hotel of Enid, Okla., to the corner drugstore. He purchased lilac perfume and headache powders, enough to keep his head steady on "a long trip." Next day the hotel porter thought he heard a groan through the locked door of the old gentleman's chamber. The door was burst in time for a doctor and two others to hear a stertorous voice say: "I am--am--John Wilkes-- Booth...
...Hudson, Mass., local authorities appealed to the immigration authorities to deport a group of aliens who recently attended the funeral of a Mrs. Catherine Tomosuines, who was buried with no other ceremony than the scattering of red flowers on her grave. No move has yet been started to deport Mrs. Tomosuines herself...
...ship and departed into exile. Pangalos barked again and all citizens were ordered to deliver up whatever "military" firearms they possessed, within a month. The official apologia declared that these steps were taken "purely as precautionary measures, yet if an investigation now under way reveals anything of a grave nature, exemplary punishment will be meted out to the guilty...
...story, a dramatic intensity achieved without sensational devices, that makes it notable. Mrs. Millin's is a disciplined intelligence that can find important work close at hand and perform its task without ostentation. Her book is a sort of Main Street in the Greek manner. There is severity, clarity, grave pity...