Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everywhere the men of the Graves Registration Service were faced with an appalling, sickening task: probing into a mixture of earth, rotting equipment and decaying flesh to find a few bones large enough to pass for the remains of the man whose name appeared on the cross above him.
The issues and effort of the Civil War produced the moral writings of Emerson and Thoreau, Walt Whitman's best poetry, Abraham Lincoln's speeches, and Mark Twain's best book (Huckleberry Finn). They also proved that history's greatest democracy was not going the way...
Next day Columnist Graves followed this letter with another: he was going on a two-week lecture tour and if the column was really to be moved, he would "hand you my resignation before I do go. . . . If I am relegated to an obscure position . . . I shall be so lost...
Three days later Graves's "This Morning," retitled "This Afternoon," popped up on Page One of the Age-Herald's opposition, Scripps-Howard's Birmingham Post.
Conductor Ifor Jones, 46, a Welshman who was once a Manhattan church organist, had rehearsed his choir of housewives, mill workers and college professors three times a week for their Carnegie Hall performance. His singers ranged from white-haired Mrs. George W. Halliwell, 78, who has sung in every one...