Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johnny McClellan had died that morning of a brain injury. The family had buried Max on a Friday. On Monday Johnny was buried in Malvern, next to his mother's grave...
...lobbied" others over to their side. U.S. District Judge Henry W. Goddard, who presided at his second trial, was partial to the prosecution; the Appeals Court judge (Harrie B. Chase) who wrote the opinion denying his appeal failed to make a careful study of the, record, and developed "grave misconceptions" of the case...
...into deep gloom. Grocers closed their doors, sat in front of their shops reading newspapers. Depressed by the slump in business, the queen of Cholon's call girls took an overdose of sleeping pills as the shortest route to the shades of her ancestors, was escorted to her grave in a red teak coffin by a weeping procession of old customers...
RAPHAEL: And I, Raphael, shall be present when he dies, and I shall stand at his grave...
...Then he has breakfast: nothing heavier than consomme and an orange, so that the surgeon, if need be, can operate tidily. Then he pulls on his suit of lights (traje de luces), says a grim goodbye to the wife and kids, puts flowers on his mother's grave, pops into the back of his limousine and starts down the last, long mile that leads to the moment of truth...