Word: griefe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governors of New Mexico, Florida, Arizona, Utah and North Dakota must provide relief for 20% to 25% of their people. The most fortunate of all Governors, in New Hampshire and Vermont, count more than one out of 20 of their people destitute. Yet the new year's grief for Governors will consist less of the magnitude of unemployment than the lack of means for providing relief...
Naturally in the recent California campaign many Utopian "hermits" rallied readily to Upton Sinclair, no mean borrower from Edward Bellamy himself. Sinclair's defeat was not the only grief they suffered. Quarrels broke out within the order. Founder Reed and some of his lieutenants fell out. Month ago, Founder Reed appeared in the East, took out incorporation papers in New York for the Utopian Society of America (East...
According to Dennis Enright, head curry-comber of the Stadium turf, there were actually less bottles left in the stadium after the Army game, than after any other major game this year. Is Harvard weakening? No, the reason is that the Harvard men had less reason to drown their grief than at the previous games for the Harvard team's heartening touchdown took the place of many a quart...
Last January three Soviet balloonists were killed when their gondola broke loose from the bag and plunged to earth. Last July the $1,000,000 stratoflight of Kepner and Stevens in the Explorer, biggest bag in history, came to grief when the balloon ripped at 60,000 ft. The balloonists had to take to their parachutes and most of their scientific instruments were smashed to smithereens...
...chilling rain, prayed aloud in unison as the stately Orthodox service began in Belgrade Cathedral, pack-jammed with royalty, statesmen and the corps diplomatique. Weeping beside the Duke of Kent was Princess Marina. Her brother-in-law Prince Paul, Jugoslavia's pallid, scholarly Chief Regent, barely controlled his grief. On a high platform upon a great throne chair sat 11 year-old King Peter II, big-eyed, erect and at times somewhat puzzled. Below him lay his murdered father King Alexander I in a simple oak coffin...