Word: bereft
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...terrible thing," said Ingleby Oddie, "for a wife to be suddenly bereft of her husband merely because he used what is now in London an out-of-date vehicle...
...back. Bereft it is true of the brass plates which once carried the presentation inscription upon the doors, stripped of its ancient aura of presidential dignity, but secure in its memories, it chuggs haughtily down Quincy Street, and draws up once more before Memorial Hall...
...situation in the press box above the colonnade is even more unfortunate; its designers chose to leave it bereft of lavatories. Since those on the ground level are practically inaccessible, the prevailing condition is approximately equivalent to that enjoyed at the campsites of savage tribes...
...Goldbergs" been chloroformed, their followers would not have been long bereft. Radio could easily provide another continued story or comedy sketch to fill its place. Radio is a practiced handmaiden of entertainment. But when "The March of Time" ends, Radio has no substitute at hand. For all its blatant claim to being a medium for education, Radio contributes little of its own beyond the considerable service of bringing good music to the millions. (Yet radiomen sputter with rage when the Radio is called "just another musical instrument...
...Monday the American people will burn their anevillees to is a great name. George Washington had been atripped of all that was human within him; he is bereft of all those principles which made him the Father of his Country. Americans have looked at their fair land and found it good and they have, with native ingenuity, endowed Washington with all those attributes which they descry in the government and life of the United States. He has become a republican, a man of the people, a temple to house the homely precepts of American faith. The man has been lost...