Word: tombes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noteworthy departmental elisions were suggested by Citizen Smith. In a Department of Public Safety would be lumped the police and fire departments, the city inspection services. The education department would not only oversee the school system, but all museums, The Bronx Zoo, Grant's Tomb. Under the Smith Plan, the Governor, with the approval of the State Senate, would appoint superior court judges for life, with 70 as the retirement age. The Mayor would appoint magistrates to the lower courts under the same terms...
...sights he had seen in Paris. They were so vivid and neatly wrought that listeners could fairly see the children Bennett had seen playing behind Notre-Dame, the glimpse of Montmartre's tinseled night life, the noisy Place d' Italic with its reek of garlic, the tomb of the Unknown Soldier which through Bennett's eyes seemed more futile than impressive...
...Springfield he laid a wreath on Lincoln's tomb and returned to the Arsenal to sit on the same platform with Len Small, Illinois' unsavory Republican nominee for Governor. The Hoover speech here developed a long and elaborate analogy between the Civil War & 1864 and the economic war & 1932. The President pictured himself standing in Lincoln's shoes when the latter reviewed the retreat of the Union arms. He recalled the Democratic clamor for immediate cessation of hostilities. He continued...
...make them agree to the regulations now enforced, smiled enough to keep in the good graces of the companies. Northwestern made him a vice president in 1919. He is big, hearty, broad-shouldered, a nailer for work. Insurance people predict that under him Northwestern's shiny marble tomb will lose some of its historic chilliness...
...Edgar Wallace that his publishers have had to issue a denial that a ghost was writing them and an admission that more are still to come. But in the case of David Herbert Lawrence these two books are the windup of his literary affairs. Any further remarks from the tomb can hardly affect his reputation one way or the other. Until the critic grave-robbers begin digging his dust (as his so-called friend John Middleton Murry did last year: TIME, May 4, 1931),* he and his works are now finished...