Word: graved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the body of Senator LaFollette, leader of the Republican Insurgents in the Senate, was carried to his grave in Wisconsin, Senator Edwin Fremont Ladd, one of the pillars of the insurgent group, died in the city of Baltimore. With hardly more than one sweep of his famed scythe, Death had taken two of the leaders of the radical group...
...animal' includes 'insects.' I have in mind the flea [laughter]. I am not a trainer of fleas [more laughter], but I should like to know what would happen to a man who .withheld from performing fleas their natural food, which I presume is human flesh? Grave doubt exists, I think, by reason of the word 'animal' not being scientifically defined...
...exercises are to include religious services at the grave of the "Unknown Patriot" who committed hara-kiri (suicide by evisceration) near the grounds of the old U. S. Embassy as a protest against "the exclusion of Japanese from the U. S." Mass meetings and other pacific demonstrations are scheduled and a list of names of representative Japanese, together with their opinions, are to be collected in a book, translated, sent to U. S. Congressmen, Chambers of Commerce, newspapers...
Kate Clephane waited, was sought out at last by her daughter. Mother-in-law Clephane had followed her son to a respectable grave and there was no other family music to face. Kate found New York quite graduated from its age of innocence, found her lovely daughter Anne all that was satisfying to a mother-love grown ravenous through lean years...
Such is the grave responsibility assumed by the English and American residential college, as distinguished from the Continental university. So long as this is the case, the American college has to be conceived not only as an agency for instruction and the promotion of learning, but as a general environment and organization of life. Its problem is two-fold: on the one hand, how may the mind be most profoundly awakened and most richly nourished? On the other hand, how may the conditions of life and forms of human association, for youth in the late teens and early twenties...