Word: graveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decision. Have we the intestinal fortitude to forego a little-how pitifully little !-present comfort for immense future gain? I think, I hope, that most Americans, when they realize fully the situation, will do the wise, the generous, the intelligent thing. Newspapers, periodicals, the radio have a grave public responsibility in educating the public conscience and intelligence in this matter...
...Grave Warning. In British Columbia, President Birt Showier of the Vancouver and New Westminster Trades and Labor Council warned members not to patronize Ocean View Cemetery, because item ploys non-union grave diggers...
...burial service of the Episcopal Church spoke its old, strong, quiet words of farewell; and it was the same at that later moment when all save the gravemen were withdrawn and reporters, in awe-felt hiding, saw how a brave woman, a widow, returned, and watched over the grave alone, until the grave was filled...
...green-hedged garden of the ancestral home-the "boxed-in garden" where Franklin Roosevelt had asked years ago that he be buried-two carloads of flowers lay heaped beside the open grave. Near it were gathered friends, relatives, the new President of the United States, old neighbors, the secretaries and ambassadors. The Rev. Dr. W. George W. Anthony, a white-haired, white-surpliced clergyman, spoke the Episcopal burial service...
After a while Eleanor Roosevelt walked back through a wide opening in the hedge. She stood alone, silently watching the workmen shoveling soil into her husband's grave. Then, silent and alone, she walked away again. On her black dress she wore the small pearl Fleur-de-Lis which he had given her as a wedding present...