Word: griefe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...riot spent the rest of his life in prison at hard labor for manslaughter. His wife was accused some years ago by Communist newsorgans of having been, during the War, one of those hard-boiled women who made easier the lot of soldiers, and in her grief at this accusation Mme Salengro died of heart disease. The Communists, having joined with the Socialists to make possible the Popular Front Cabinet of Premier Blum, later turned from foes of Socialist Salengro into friends, but he found other foes. Ever since last August, the weekly Gringoire and other Paris organs...
...Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan (pop. 21,000,000) one day 20 years ago, word reached a young woman named Lydia Gruchy that her brother Arthur had met his death in the War. Arthur Gruchy had been studying for the ministry. Grief-stricken, sister Lydia resolved to carry on for her brother, to do as much for God as a woman could. She entered St. Andrew's Theological College in Saskatoon, the first woman in the Dominion to study theology. In 1923 Lydia Gruchy completed her courses. But when the United Church of Canada was formed two years later...
...knowing quite whether he had harvested a bumper crop of votes or had merely provided New England with a holiday, President Roosevelt dictated his grief at the death of his rich and radical Senator James Couzens (see p. 53): "The people of Michigan and the nation have lost a leader whose convictions were part of the best that America aspires...
...Belgian people saw their handsome young King Leopold III emerge decisively last week from his grief-stricken brooding over the death of his beloved Queen Astrid (TIME. Sept. 9, 1935) and strike a heavy blow of statecraft which resounded from one end of Europe to the other. To the neat, bright Royal Palace in Brussels were summoned Premier-Professor Paul van Zeeland and Cabinet to hear an historic declaration reversing the post-War foreign policy of Belgium. By boldly assuming full responsibility for what he said, His Majesty raised his declaration above the cockpit of party politics, placed...
...from Troy, but the gods will not let Troyward winds blow until the unclean house of Atreus is purged by sacrifice. Iphigenia, daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, is lured to Aulis in the belief that she is to wed Achilles, and Calchas there prepares to sacrifice her. Mad with grief when Agamemnon refuses to interfere, Clytemnestra blasphemes the gods, calls Helen a whore, vows vengeance upon her husband. When Agamemnon returns from Troy after 1,007 days, his son Orestes is a curly moppet, his daughter Electra (Joanna Roos) a grown girl. His wife has taken Aegisthus as her lover...