Word: griefe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allies of France, Rumania and Czechoslovakia also sent bombing planes, partly to ensure the safety of Rumanian King Carol and Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Eduard Benes, partly to remind grief-stricken Jugoslavia of her treaty ties with France. So impressed was the Jugoslav Government that the official last words of King Alexander were amended last week from "Protect Jugoslavia!" to "Protect Jugoslavia and cherish our friendship with France"-no mean mouthful for a man dying of hemorrhage provoked by bullets...
...conducted with the mysterious formalities of diplomatic usage, that one might well doubt the competence of a democracy to handle them with awareness of general implications instead of with sporadic excitability. Indeed observers have asserted that in the foreign field democracy finds consistent policy impossible, and either comes to grief directly in an international imbroglio or falls into such disropute at home that "strong-arm" men are called upon to govern...
...nice lot and bright," "meek," "Bohemian," "hearty and robust," and "swanky," the college girls retort with epithets and descriptions frank enough to disturb the most indifferent men. How disillusioned and perplexed must be the Freshmen who discovers a stupid Radcliffe lass or a Bohemian Wellesleyian. What tragedy and grief to find the Guide had erred. His weighty problem still unsolved where can he turn for guidance and initiation? The dank silence of his lonely room give forth no answer and his brooding only lessens his faith in humankind. Most miserable is he who finds all women unclassifiable and all colleges...
...alimony-so much, in fact, that Tony would have to sell his beloved ancestral estate. No fool when faced with facts, Tony decided to let her want, went off to Brazil with an incompetent explorer to discover a legendary city. The inevitable happened: the crazy expedition came to grief; Tony's estate went to poor relations; Brenda married one of Tony's obliging friends...
Pretty Virginia Loomis, 18, soft-voiced night club singer, was taken to Roosevelt Hospital, operated on for appendicitis. Eight days later she was dead of amebic dysentery. Broadway wailed its grief...