Word: grief-stricken
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...hold, dropped under the grinding trucks, was carried to a hospital, where surgeon amputated both legs. Next morning four relatives entered his room and a clear tenor voice was raised, singing "Mother Machree." After the last note there was a hush. Cullen's relatives filed out, lips quivering, grief-stricken. Wondering hospital attendants learned that the deceased, trained in a choir, often sang to his family of an evening, had wished to put his ebbing strength into a song of parting, as the wild swans are said...
...reaches of medicine could not keep pneumonia two years ago from striking at the wife of Lucius Nathan Littauer, wealthy glove manufacturer of Gloversville, N. Y. (onetime, 1897-1907, Republican congressman from New York), from filling her lungs until gasping, coma-stricken, she died. Mr. Littauer, like many another grief-stricken man,* resolved to aid medical science in uncovering knowledge that might have prevented her death. So last week he gave $5,000 to New York University for the study and cure of pneumonia, and promised to give another like amount every six months...
...Chinamen employed in Sha-mien shall be equipped with passes bearing their signature and photograph if they leave or enter that quarter after 9 p. m. The Chinese declared that the regulations place them on the same footing as criminals. Twenty-six unions walked out in sympathy with the grief-stricken Chinamen from Sha-mien...
...recognizing the unreal as reality on the stage, that this attempt at picturing life as it is, is simply burlesque. A Shakespeare could harmonize a drunken porters' scene with the rest of "Macbeth," but it is doubtful if even he could bring together with any measure of success a grief-stricken mother, whose son fails to return from battle, and a typical Broadway monologist...
Some of the notices posted at the Law School are original, to say the least. For instance, the following: "Will the person who through mistake purloined my umbrella please return it to its grief-stricken owner and shout the beer. All will then be forgiven and forgotten." Another notice, posted not long ago, read: "Will somebody please find my knife that I lost and return...