Word: griefe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faces of old women moved from their homes in Madrid for safety's sake, staring at a bleak, uncertain future, faces in terror after a bombing (see cut), faces of men going into battle and the faces of men who will never return from battle, faces full of grief and determination and fear...
...with a shotgun, and was once about to be assaulted by a burly victim in the lobby of a motion picture theatre when bystanders intervened. Truck drivers passing through Manchester became so irked at what they considered unwarranted pouncing by Policeman Connors that they threatened to bring him to grief by making sudden stops with their air brakes while he was following behind on his motorcycle. Standing joke in the region: "It's too bad Connors' own family don't drive, or he'd spend all his time arresting them and let the rest...
...good deal of Congressional blood boiled. It was not cooled by what Senators took to be an oblique effort to boost Senator Barkley as Senator Robinson's successor (see col. 2). Instead of healing, the Democratic split widened sorely. The death of Robinson had become not only a grief, but a turning point in politics. Only for Robinson did it mean an end of strife...
...thrombosis, in Saratoga Springs, N. Y.; Chairman Aiming S. Prall of the Federal Communications Commission, of an ailment his son refused to name, in Boothbay Harbor, Me.; U. S. Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham, after a severe chill, in London; Actor William Powell, of nervous and physical exhaustion resulting from grief over the death of Jean Harlow, in Hollywood; Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio, 74, recovering rapidly from what he called "disturbances of old age," in Brescia, Italy; Federal Judge Florence Ellinwood Allen, of a fractured ankle suffered while trout fishing, in Estes Park. Colo...
...sponsors. His American superiors, Sir William Johnson and General Gage, feared and disliked Rogers, did everything they could to hamstring him. While Langdon Towne and a small party set off to find the Northwest Passage for him, Rogers had to stay fuming in Michilimackinac. When the expedition came to grief, barely managed to get back safely, Langdon found Rogers a prisoner in irons; his enemies had had him arrested on charges of treason and malfeasance. But Langdon's sympathy for his chief vanished when he discovered why Ann was no longer there. He left Rogers to the descending discords...