Word: griefe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These were the sectors where the worst of the flood had passed. Downstream, men were still struggling too excitedly to begin counting their rosary of grief. Evansville, Ind., part of which is perched on a snow-covered bluff, looked down on a yellow sea where its business district and part of its residential district had been. There Paul Schmidt, chairman of the local Red Cross, got a lift from a passing skiff which promptly sank under him. Before a boatload of cameramen would rescue him they made him turn his profile so they could take his picture...
...week to watch and hear the dances he has constructed during his absence. This time his new offering most favored was a temple dance called Tandrava Nrittya. Shankar became the God Shiva, whirling and gesturing, creating the universe only to destroy it. When his wife died, Shiva fell into grief and a state of meditation. Reincarnated as Parvati, she tried to wake him. When the Elephant-Demon, Gajasura, menaced her, Shiva, awake at last, came to Parvati's defense. In the great fight that followed, the god and the demon threw winds and lightning at each other, the forces...
...railroad mileage was in the hands of the courts. "Poor financial structures and unwise surplus and dividend policies were chiefly responsible for the failure of some of these companies and were contributing factors in the failure of most of them," observed the Commissioners. Many a road could trace its grief to the fact that it was "handicapped from the beginning by financial structures overloaded with funded debt which was not reduced in good times." To assure more provident procedure in the future. I. C. C. had adopted the policy of insisting upon sinking funds in all railroad reorganization plans...
...Overwork and calumny have been too much. Together with grief they have conquered me. Good-bye to mother, to Jeanette, to thee and thine. I am rejoining Leonie...
...Carmen, the hot potato he mischievously pressed into Nordica's hand. Playing Tosca in Vienna before the War, Jeritza fell on her face, coolly sang the tender aria Vissi d'arte prone. Margaret Anglin once stalked out onto the Carnegie Hall stage to declaim Electra's grief, was appalled to find a cat peering out of her flowing Greek gown. Once when Mischa Levitzki was performing in Carnegie Hall, a mouse crept close to the piano, sat up when the pianist played softly, scuttled off when he played loudly, returned for the pianissimi, required four...