Word: griefe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...74th House he has to worry not only about Congressmen who made grief for other Speakers, but also about an unusually vigorous crop of newcomers. The House has a new clown in Representative Percy Gassaway of Coalgate, Okla., who wears cowboy boots, talks loud about fist fights, poses interminably for pictures and calls himself "OF Gassaway, the Oklahoma cowhand...
Badgered by the charming lady who thinks he should pay her more alimony, M. Joseph Avenol, Secretary General of the League of Nations, was full of private grief last week. Even so, something had to be done to mark the fact that Japan's resignation from the League became effective last week, exactly two years after the Japanese delegation defiantly walked out headed by cold-cigar-chewing Japanese League Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka (TIME, March 6, 1933). Turning from his own troubles to the League's, M. Avenol, unaware that he was stirring up two Oriental hornets' nests...
...back door of Greece opens on the mountainous Balkan hinterland, its front door on the Mediterranean. By the sea, greatness as well as grief have come to Greece. Three weeks ago from the sea, from Greece's greatest island. Crete, came Revolution, led by that greatest of modern Greeks, sly, old Eleutherios Venizelos, against the "Balkan policy" and the monarchist intrigues of Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris...
...German people and their leaders: "Ever since they lost the War on the field of battle they have been trying to cry their way to Victory. Whatever happens they are the injured party. It often works." Last week this judgment of experience was again confirmed when howls of German grief went up at the release in London by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald of a mild White Paper in which the United States, the Soviet Union, the Japanese Empire and the German Reich were cited as engaged in strengthening their armed forces. The conclusion drawn by His Majesty...
...traitor, swears it by an oath on a spear and then helps plot his death. And at the end she must become a goddess again. Though high passages are long and grueling, a few rare interpreters have made them seem incidental to Brünnhilde's grief, her realization of tragedy as she majestically orders Siegfried's funeral pyre and calls for her horse to ride into the flames...