Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the diggers found a shallow grave containing the skeleton of a young man close to seven feet tall. His shield, spear and knife identified him as a Saxon of the early fifth century. All his limbs were broken, according to the pagan burial custom (perhaps to cripple the ghost), and the back of his skull had been bashed in. The diggers hoped that one of the Britons of Puddle Hill had liquidated at least one of the monstrous Saxons...
...writing that "Reynolds went nuding along the public road [with] a wench." After all, "perfectly honorable people are nudists, and . . . nudism [is] not a crime." Pegler's charge that Reynolds proposed marriage to Heywood Broun's widow in the car on the way to Broun's grave was not libelous either, said the lawyers, since even the Mosaic Code imposes "upon a brother the duty of proposing to his dead brother's widow." As for Pegler's charge that Reynolds had "a yellow streak glaring for the world to see," that kind of writing...
...John Montresor, an aide-de-camp to General Howe. It was Montresor who later reported Hale's last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."* After the patriot's body was cut down, it was buried in an unmarked grave and forgotten...
...public opinion will force substandard hospitals to upgrade themselves or shut down. "I wish it were possible," he added, "to hang a scarlet letter above the admission desk of every provisionally approved hospital in the U.S. and Canada. Nonaccreditation, by my standards, [is] criminal, while provisional accreditation marks a grave misdemeanor on the part of those responsible...
...weakness. In slaying the sacred dragon of the Dwarf people, Siegfried has been drenched in the monster's en chanted blood except for one spot where a leaf stuck to his back. Hagen hurls his long spear through the mortal skin, Brunhilde impales herself on Siegfried's grave, and Kriemhild swears undying revenge. She gets it by marrying Attila the Hun and luring Hagen and his cohorts to a Hunland banquet that becomes a blood bath. Rich with omens and enchantments, brimming with the life, dress and manners of the time, The Twelve Pictures also breathes life into...