Word: griefe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fascist regime! They prevent from entering their churches little boys in the uniforms of the balilla" (Fascist Boy Scouts). At the Vatican it was announced that "particulars of 35 recent acts of intimidation" of Catholics by Fascists had come to the Holy Father's ears, caused him sore grief. Thereupon Fascist youths gathered around the Catholic Students Association House, hurled stones, broke windows even as high as the fifth floor. Other irate Fascists mobbed a Catholic publishing house, hurled from its windows copies of the best-selling book Papa (The Pope). Wrenching from the wall a portrait...
...Ysaye, 72, famed Belgian violinist, of diabetic phlebitis which necessitated the amputation of his leg in 1929; in Brussels. Onetime (1919-22) conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony, violin teacher for more than 15 years in the Brussels Conservatoire, his pupils included Elisabeth Queen of the Belgians, who went in grief to lay a wreath upon his bier...
Despite this supreme precedent of night burials, I doubt if the custom would ever become popular in the U. S. Of course, it has its advantages: a convenient hour when friends can come without missing their work, a dark privacy for personal grief, a hushed solemnity. But are not pomp and ostentation an integral part of most funerals and is not daylight necessary to parade their magnificence? The Negroes of the South who take long days from their field and house work to commit their dead amid lugubrious festivities are not radically different from their white masters in this respect...
...will be on the side of peace next time even when the drums beat. If their professions mean anything, they ought to fight every attempt to associate religion and war, even in retrospect. Let us build memorials, if we must, to our war dead, and let them express our grief at our folly and wickedness in sending these young men to death; but let us not help prepare another war by sanctifying the last one through associating its losses and sacrifices with the service of God instead of the devil. --The Nation...
...managing editor of a New York tabloid undertakes to find out what has become of a famed courtesan of 20 years back, who had been acquitted of murder. The newshawks find her respectably married. Their screeching story breaks on the wedding day of the woman's daughter. Grief-stricken, the mother and her husband commit suicide. An important difference between the play and the Gordon case: no managing editor wilfully dug up the Gordon woman's past without provocation...