Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...procession marched to the music of two mufiled brass bands, to the Delta, where the football game is usually played, and formed a circle, surrounded by a large crowd of students and others. The sextons dog the grave, while the Chaplain delivered the funeral oration, of which we are able to give a verbatim report...
...Nine grave gentlemen last week presented to the President and the public the product of some eleven weeks' deliberation. The nine, headed by Dwight W. Morrow, washed their hands of a troublesome job. They had done their duty and they were free. The President and the public could do what they liked about the report of the President's Air Inquiry Board, Summary...
...clutching onto power. In the past I have sometimes longed for the freedom from responsibility which would follow the overthrow of a ministry of which I was a member. Tonight it is otherwise. In my heart I know that if you overthrow me you will have committed a grave act against our country...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Dean of Westminster, read the Anglican funeral service, intoning majestically: "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory...
...addressing the Rev. Ernest Milmore Stires, Rector for the last quarter-century of St. Thomas' Church, Manhattan, who knelt before him, pale and grave. In the chancel stood 35 bishops; 430 clergymen were ranked in files in the nave; hundreds of wealthy laymen were packed shoulder to shoulder in those stalls not reserved for the ordained. Already Dr. Stires had received a magnificent Bible from Mrs. George Hardwick, his 80-year old mother-in-law; already 80 of his admiring colleagues had presented him with an amethyst ring; already the great procession -so long that the processional hymn...