Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busy President posed only for the grave, ruddy head, but his subject's false teeth gave Stuart trouble, and he never got the mouth to look quite right. As a result, the painting has a somewhat grandmotherly air-despite the sword which Washington seems to clutch for assurance as he extends a reassuring right hand. The vague resemblance of the figure to a teapot, with the arms serving for handle and spout, earned the picture a sneering title: "The Teapot Portrait...
...notes for works he never executed. He pondered long and often on his special afflictions, melancholy and gout, and showed positive enthusiasm on the subject of death. "Our friend Dr. Chapman," he informed a correspondent briskly, "is not expected here again in a hurry. He is gone to his grave with five mackerel...in his belly. He eat them all at one dinner...They say he made a very good...
...position delights John Fine but it does not awe him. He approaches his momentous decision between Taft and Ike with the same infinite patience, shrewd caution and grave sense of responsibility which he has applied for 30 years to the selection of road commissioners, court tipstaves and dogcatchers...
...through," grieved Coppi. Then, in a dramatic scene before his brother's grave, Coppi announced that he would compete in the Tour de France. He finished tenth, and it seemed that the great Coppi, then 31, was indeed through...
Some extremely dangerous drugs have been promoted for reducing, said Dr. Stormont. Thyroid extract, still popular with some physicians, should not be; it can do grave harm, and there is no reason for giving it, since an underactive thyroid is very rarely the cause of obesity. Also sharply condemned: other hormones, such as pituitary extract (they have nothing to do with overweight), laxatives and dinitrophenol (it raises the temperature so that "the obese are literally frying in their own fat," and it causes cataracts...