Word: griefe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hardy fire-enters of Cambridge were almost as sentimental over Sal as their predecessors would have been over the proverbial fire-horse of a few decades ago. Any grief that they might have felt over Sal's retirement, however, was amply dispelled by her successor, a G1-foot aerial laddor and water tower...
...revolution was launched by one Rufus Lenois Patterson, seventh son of an impoverished North Carolina lawyer-planter. About 1919, after 20 years of grief, he perfected a cigar machine which cut, rolled and wrapped the leaves, made the cheap cigar profitable to produce. In 1921 about 30% of the 6,726,000,000 cigars consumed sold at 5? or less. In 1933, the proportion had jumped to 85%. This stupendous gain was made in spite of the fact that cigarets and Depression had cut total cigar consumption to new lows. Nickel cigars had simply profited at the expense of higher...
...wife) and he is Congress' chief advocate of permitting the dissemination of birth control information. Last week on the 21st anniversary of the birth control movement, the Judiciary Committee of the House by vote of 15-to-8 killed his birth control bill. He shook his head in grief, refused to say what his next move would be. Wags suggested a processing tax. Margaret Sanger, however, refused to let her anniversary be spoiled by merely one more defeat. She celebrated anyhow...
...experience of motherhood. Then she is the wise little gnome keeping willful Sebastian Sanger, her lover, from taking his brother Caryl's girl. She seems to lose stature, shrivel up with unhappiness as Sebastian's mistreated wife. And her little body expands miraculously with an almost majestic grief in the short scene following her baby's death. Back with Sebastian again, she has metamorphosed into a stoic, middle-aged housewife...
Died. George Bistany, 45, famed animalcatcher, superintendent of San Francisco's Zoo; of high blood pressure, a kidney ailment and grief; in San Francisco. Last November the Zoo's prize orangutan "Ginger" died of poison. Its keeper, Jack Bamberger, promptly took to his bed, died two days later of a heart ailment and grief. Superintendent Bistany, who credited "Ginger" with having saved his life when he was attacked by another ape, also fell ill. Explained he: "I don't know what happened to me. Ginger was my friend. He could lick 30 men." Two days after Bistany...