Word: griefe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promoters a profit, he was shipped last July to the Hanover Zoo. Roland was originally a little smaller (three tons) than Goliath. For years he has been wasting slowly away. Lately he had begun to lose 10 lb. a day and to turn up a face of monstrous grief, one eye closed, the other alert and blue (see cut). Last week Berlin Zoogoers attributed Roland's death to a heart broken by loneliness. Berlin doctors, however, set about knifing through a hide as thick as a truck tire for some more realistic reason for his demise...
...sadness. Just as surely, she was a voluptuous young Spanish girl wandering wistfully in her garden at dusk, an Arabian merchant comically scorning the Jews, a Felahi shepherdess who lost her pet lamb and joyfully found it again. Deeply stirring was her impersonation of a Persian woman possessed by grief and awe as she swayed over her father's tomb. Never did she make her audience feel a need for words...
...years ahead of his easy-going times, appears from Author Bryant's pages. At 36 Pepys may have felt that the death of his wife, "poor wretch," had closed the most important chapter in his life, but in fact his career was just beginning. Partly to forget his grief and partly because his enemies were trying to discredit his administration of the Navy Office. Pepys threw himself wholeheartedly into his job. He became a walking encyclopedia of Navy affairs, was able to confound almost single-handed the Parliamentary commission of investigation, went on to combat, with varying success...
This was sympathetic Squire Baldwin's bumbling way of conveying to His Majesty an expression of the Cabinet's grief on learning that not even Lord Dawson of Penn, who saved George V's life seven years ago, had been able to save the King's elder sister, H. R. H. Princess Victoria, who died last week (TIME...
...Paul Clark, the undersigned do hereby testify that I am in my right mind and enter the Charles River on the night of December 6, 1935, entirely of my own volition and if I come to grief it is wholly my own fault. Signed, Paul Clark...