Word: griefe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of a little boy who was punished, for stealing five pennies, by not being allowed to have mushrooms for dinner. The mushrooms were poisonous toadstools and his whole family of eleven died that night from eating them. "The disaster was beyond my years," says the narrator. "Grief for one at a time, yes. But eleven all at once-I hate to say it but I didn't know where to begin." If it failed to make him sad, the narrator continues, the incident at least enabled him to form an opinion of life. It was a low opinion...
...named S. T. Brogdon, out to be Governor of Texas, closed his campaign for the Democratic nomination last week. So did State Attorney General William McCraw of Dallas, Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson of Amarillo, Oilman Tom F. Hunter of Wichita Falls, seasoned campaigners all. And so, to the grief of all these gentlemen, did Flour Salesman Wilbert Lee O'Daniel of Fort Worth (TIME, July 25). At Kilgore, on the night before primary day, Candidate O'Daniel struck up his hillbilly band, introduced Children Pat, Molly & Mike, who sang "Please Pass the Biscuits, Pappy," declaimed...
When Cartoonist Ham Fisher decided that Joe had got over his grief and should return to the U. S. to defend the heavy weight title, he found no way to get Joe out of his five-year enlistment without staining his spotless character. Presidential intervention was the only hope. So Cartoonist Fisher wrote to Presidential Press Secretary Stephen Tyree Early, got permission to have President Roosevelt solve the dilemma. The President ap peared in the strip on two successive days, first reviving Knobby Walsh, Palooka's manager, after telling him that Joe had deserted and was to be shot...
...three point two. An older one. called the Tennessee Evolution Song, commemorates Tennessee's famous Scopes Trial: Then to Dayton came a man with his ideas so grand, And he said we sprang from monkeys long ago; But in teaching his belief Mr. Scopes found only grief, For they would not let their old religion...
Motion can teach but little to the breast that holds your grief...