Word: griefe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rigid moralist, Japan's current policy is frightfully reprehensible and productive of grief. Recently, she has once again shyly intimated her utterly disinterested desire to establish a Monroe Doctrine for the continent of Asia, a policy which violates not only the Nine-Power Treaty of 1921, but other treaty obligations as well. Diplomatists are expressing shocked surprise at this, a state of affairs which is either a tribute to their innocent incompetence, or to their mendacious abilities. To the historian, this desire has been common knowledge for at least a decade, but, of course, diplomatists are unsophisticated folk...
...signed) E. D. STANDIFORD "President of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company" Sequel to the above: To this day, 60 odd years later, Danville passengers must hire taxis and drive three miles to catch an L. & N. train for east or west. To assuage their grief, awakened citizens of Danville induced the Cincinnati Southern Railway to survey its municipally owned "Queen and Crescent'' route via Danville, Ky., but notwithstanding this the stubborn old L. & N. refuses to make connection at the crossing and I've seen the latter's passenger trains pull out leaving Q. & C. passengers...
...while the Floods, Mackays, O'Briens, et al. were plucking some $750,000,000 in gold and silver from the Comstock Lode, police guarded the portals of Mining Exchange as the public clamored to buy, buy, buy. Bodie was the favorite with Eastern investors and caused them more grief than any other stock on the mining list. Bell Isle was whirled from obscurity to $5.25 a share by the "Tuscarora Ring," then allowed to subside to $1.25. To West Coast octogenarians "PostWar boom" still means post-Civil...
...word vocabulary. 16 verbs do the work of over 4,000; 600 nouns, 150 adjectives, 100 other words take the place of the 415.000 listed in The Oxford English Dictionary. There are only five grammatical rules ("the exceptions ... are few and unimportant")The apparently whimsical spelling of English, a grief to struggling foreigners, has not been tampered with. Ogden admits this difficulty but calls it minor, hopes to see spelling reform make plain English even plainer. No pidgin English, Basic can be used to express ideas, as Ogden proves by writing its 100-page system in Basic English...
...Belgium's great Cardinal Mercier, but his successor, Cardinal van Roey, Archbishop of Malines, sang the Solemn Requiem Mass in sombre black and silver vestments. Though it is a strict rule of Belgian court etiquet that women shall not appear at state funerals, neither etiquet nor prostration from grief could keep gentle Queen Elisabeth from her husband's funeral.† Heavily veiled she slipped through a side door from the sacristy, and took her place on the dais beside President Albert Lebrun of France. At the foot of the coffin Cardinal van Roey pronounced Absolution, and with muted...