Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Comes) Hutchinson. Everyone knows Christopher Robin. Soon a lot of people will know Simon. For in The Book of Simon Author Hutchinson tells you all there is to know about his son, from the age of 17 months to nearly three years. It is an affectionate account, not totally bereft of humor. "He crawls excitedly under the table for something and then, having secured it, gleefully stands upright. Bang! The table has rushed down upon him and crashed his head for him. He desires a piece of coal from the coal-box and to stoop for it he puts...
...Watertown, N. Y.'s Thompson Park Zoo, attendants took her cubs from a 500-lb. bear. When next a human entered her cage-it happened to be Emerson E. Joyce, 60, keeper-the bereft bear hugged him to death...
...Lindman cabinet was conservative in complexion. It had been in office since October, 1928. but recently was bereft of a working majority in both Riksdag chambers...