Word: grief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tragic vigil is interrupted by a soldier with six bodies--hanging on six trees, the last a holly--which he has been assigned to guard. While his adoration of the window's perfect grief blossoms into physical passion, which the aid of a jug of wine, one of his bodies is foully stolen, rendering him certainly its successor. For section six, paragraph three of the regulations quite definitely prescribes hanging for such neglect of duty. The solution is a triumph of wit over propriety...
...does not name him, and 2) the lyrics are laudatory rather than defamatory, the hill-country minister pressed his claim that Missouri Walking Preacher invaded his right of privacy and blackened his character. Said he sadly: "The boogie-woogie, beer-hall music of this song has brought me much grief and caused friends to question my faith and integrity...
...Grief...
...different reason. It duly noted the facts about Roger and Rusty, continued: "Roger's sorrow parallels that felt by a child whose pet has been stolen and carved up for vivisection. Bill pending in the Illinois legislature would foster such base thefts and multiply the grief of boys like Roger...
...distant century-say the 16th-and take it seriously. Add one princely husband, admiring and dull; one bride, beautiful and devout; one young lover, handsome and ardent. Stir the ingredients in a batter of love-at-first-sight and courtly ceremony; cook over a slow fire of virtue, grief and remorse; then sprinkle with fragments of broken hearts. This basic recipe for romance or rubbish is served up cold in Madame de Lafayette's Princess of Cleves...