Word: griefe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Remscheid, Prussia, Capt. Bertram's home, his mother had turned grey, his grandmother had died of grief...
Cornelia, almost suicidal with grief at the loss of her only child, arrives hoping to find some solace in her brother's family. But Ethel and her children are worse than she had dreamed. Monica comes with the McKelveys who are just about to climb the canyon and look at the land, when solicitous Ethel insists on their having tea instead. Jed and Babby come late. Jed learns from Hertha, to his horror, that she is pregnant with a child of his. Dinner is served, and a long time...
...vacant flats, with a bed and a chair as my only furniture," committed suicide. He left a note: "I leave this world because I have been ruined by my wife and the laws and courts that make the racket of alimony possible. ... I had the grief and my wife had the gravy. Goodby, world, you are too much...
...nobleman hard pressed by taxes and unable to rent his estate, the Earl of Lytton closed his turreted Tudor castle at Knebworth, Hertfordshire. Said he: "For years I have been trying to let it in vain. I cannot afford to live in it longer. It is, of course, a grief to leave our ancestral home in this way, but there is no alternative. They are all going...
Best find in the tomb was a gold mask, four inches high, representing terrific Xipetotec,* the Cloud People's god of vegetation, gold, silver and grief. For Xipetotec's pleasure one of his priests would dance in a skin freshly flayed from a dazzling, dazzled woman...