Word: graveyard
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...mission that was widely held to be connected with Britain's mooted return to a gold-standard currency. The Governor, who is an Eton man and served through the South African War before he became interested in finance, is as silent as a whole graveyard. Neither U. S. nor British reporters, earnest, inquiring, persistent, could drag from him one word of the portent of his U. S. mission...
...Eliphalet Greer was a lean and pious man; he had an ivory-headed stick and a great gold watch-chain; he wore a suit of black with lace at the wrist and collar; once a week he walked, Bible in hand, through the streets to church. In the graveyard above the town was a tombstone which he had erected to the memory of one Richard Parton, Esq., his FORMER ASSOCIATE IN VENTURE OF TRADING, LOST...
...night, in a Northeaster, a strange ship blew into Portsmouth. Next day, a man who walked like a cat was seen going up the hill to the graveyard. He surveyed the monument with a puckered face, took a chisel from his pocket, added a postscript: RETURNED TO THIS LIFE, APRIL 18TH...
...first place, it was built as a memorial. Now, a memorial is always a monument to the past, not the future a sort of graveyard for old memories. Surely, then, it is nothing short of profanation to think of ousting these memories from the mouldy shroud in which they have now slept for half a century. The dust of years lies thick upon the carved rafters. Since the closing of the hall, perhaps bats already flit about in the colored gloom that sifts through the stained glass windows at midday. Through the deep silence a solitary watchman sees the spider...
...worth. Indeed, this is in a way a necessary part of Wall Street's regular business in credit. Accordingly, when the Treasury Department allowed the publication of tax returns of large tax-payers,* no small interest was shown in them along the famed thoroughfare "between the graveyard [Trinity] and the river [East]." The first reaction of the financial district was astonishment and indignation, and expended itself in heated conversations about individual rights, etc. This word was, however, soon succeeded by a not ungleeful curiosity. A closer inspection of the published lists, however, raised new questions rather than settled...