Word: griefe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future, now that the AAA has come to grief on the Supreme Court rocks, Mr. Wallace declines even to guess where prices may go in case farmer cooperation in the soil conservation substitute for the fallen crop control system is not complete. Since the farm voters bid fair to be in a position to look back yearningly at the AAA days when the time comes for weighing the respective merits of the party platforms this year, the Wallace outlook as to what may happen in 1937 and 1938 could make a great difference at the polls in November...
Alone man bitter' that his heart is tired, His heart's old anger broken by its grief...
...friends he decided that intelligence was not a menace: it was simply not being used. Because the Communists seemed to him as myopic as everyone else he refused to be a Communist. Instead he married the faithful Athene, who had been "a kind of mother to five years of grief," went with her back to his family home in Idaho, settled down to write his honest story...
...only five years old, but her life touched the lives of such interesting people as the Shelleys--Shelley appears to have been generally more solicitous for the child's welfare than Byron was. "And did you see Shelley plain?" Allegra did many times. Her death brought genuine grief to Byron, who loved her as the image of himself, after the manner of so many egoistic parents. The Marshesa is justified in emphasizing this point...
...like a mask when she dances. For Frontiers her principal gesture is to raise one leg, rest it on a fence (see cut p. 53). Her intention is to give the effect of space, of peaceful contemplation. Jumps into the air mean joy, a collapse to the floor implies grief or destruction. In Horizons, her latest creation, her girls have a passage where they place their hands behind their necks, rotate their heads from side to side. They are supposed to be hesitating, wondering whether they should go to the right or the left...