Word: griefe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tragedy. In Brussels Premier Paul van Zeeland held an emergency meeting of the Belgian Cabinet, boarded a plane for Lucerne to take back the body. When the news was broken to Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, mother of Queen Astrid, she prepared to fly to Brussels. Overcome by grief, she was forced to cancel the flight, went on by train. In London the death of Astrid coincided with the announcement of the engagement of the Duke of Gloucester, caused King George to order the British Court into a fortnight's mourning...
...carefully planned schedule must anticipate the requirements of concentration and distribution. Moreover, while there is no occasion for a "snap" program, Freshmen who bravely plunge into five difficult courses usually come to grief...
...Hyde Park home Franklin D. Roosevelt solemnly expressed his profound shock and grief at the loss of his "old friend." In Washington Vice President Garner said: "That is awful bad. I can't talk about...
...respect for Crow etiquette. "If you have ever been married, you know how I felt," the old Crow told Ethnologist Lowie. Had he resisted or taken her back, he would have been forever disgraced. When Gray-bull stole a wife in turn, her last husband, ravaged with grief, became a Crazy-Dog- Wishing-to-Die, pledged to court death. Dismayed, Gray-bull returned his new wife, whereupon the husband broke his pledge to die, was always looked on with contempt...
...this coming of Death to one who had summoned Death so often, Baron Hewart gave vent to a grief Homeric. "His place can never be filled!" cried the Lord Chief Justice of England. "He will have no successor. To the English Bench it is a sad and irreparable loss, but to me it is a devastating shock! . . I am almost too overcome with tears to speak. . . . No sweeter spirit ever adorned the earth...