Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Courage, integrity and faith have supported our President at many grave moments in the past, and God has spared him now to carry on his idealistic career...
...acting too, was generally fine--considerably above the usual summer theatre level--so that none of the following criticism is very grave. Jeanne Jerrems as Isabelle was pretty, suitably unsure of herself in the rich surroundings, but just a slight bit stiff; Louis Edmonds, as the twin brothers, was good as the calculating Hugo but could probably have made the sheepish Frederic more of a contrast; Dee Victor grated well as Isabelle's unbearably oafish mother; Olive Dunbar overplayed Capulet, the servant with romatic ideas, a little too much; Stanley Jay as the crumbling butler, Laurinda Barrett as the vampish...
...Snyder," writes Donovan, "listened to Eisenhower's chest with a stethoscope and took his pulse and tested his blood pressure . . . It took only two or three minutes for Snyder to come to the grave conclusion that the President of the U.S. was suffering from a coronary thrombosis." Snyder immediately began specific treatment for a coronary...
...Washington, straight-backed and spare his weathered mask of a face transformed by a wintry smile. "Now that Sir Winston Churchill is no longer active," said Dulles as he proposed a glowing toast, "you are the dean of the Western world." Three days later the old man sat grave-faced amid a rowdy powwow of the Oneida Indians in the student union of Wisconsin's Marquette University. "We like you to a Moses leading your people out of the wilderness," the Oneida chief said, as he crowned the old man with a war bonnet of bright feathers. "We rejoice...
Chief Justice Warren, with Justices Douglas, Black and Frankfurter, dissented resoundingly. Wrote Black: "The core of our constitutional system is that individual liberty must never be taken away by shortcuts, that fair trials in independent courts must never be dispensed with. That system is in grave danger. This case emphasizes that fact...