Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exactly how grave are the "atrocities" reported perpetrated upon foreigners in Soviet Russia...
Meanwhile the respected Rintaro Nishimura, hereditary hearse-maker to the Imperial House, arrived at Tokyo from Kyoto, the ancient Capital, with 50 workmen and began work on the great two-wheeled cart in which the Tenno's remains will journey to the grave. For constructing the Imperial Hearse he will receive the princely fee of 100,000 yen ($50,000). No one else knows the secret of constructing the wheels of the funeral car so that they will emit the traditional "mourning squeak." At the hubs a mechanism capable of emitting loud groans will be installed. Finally the hearse...
...later--"Self expression is a necessity of life, even the austere and reserved Francis Bacon grants. The age of repression, at last in its grave, has been succeeded by an outburst of activity in all fields. Votes for women: colleges for women: short skirts for women: these are among the immediate results. . . Radcliffe is agog to welcome genius in literary guise...
...known what the first downward step means to a girl, and that in life where such a thing happens one of two things is bound to follow, either she will madly plunge deeper till in a few years (10 to 15) she will go down in disgrace to a grave where such fallen women find a place, usually the pauper field; or, if in horror she recoils from what she has done she will live her life as best she may always feeling the "scarlet letter" on her breast even though it cannot be seen by others...
...together far surpassed her sublimation of his romantic tendencies?or, dare we say, his passions. They had no children. She modestly discouraged his tenderest husbanding. Hence it was not surprising that Gamaliel, at chivalric 65, caught himself thinking, as he laid his fifty-second weekly wreath on Cordelia's grave, of other women?of "Amanda the faithful, "so noble that she creaks," who had repented for her pride and never married; of nymphs and dryads on spring breezes and in dreams; even of a mulatto making a bed. Nor was it surprising that he progressed from elderly solicitude to queasy...