Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Imperial father had always near his heart a reign of right and justice, and made it his constant aim to follow and brighten the path laid by his predecessor. . . . He has now passed away amidst our unbounded grief and sorrow. . . . Mournful and heavyhearted, we have now succeeded, to the Imperial line. With our limited gifts, we are mindful of the difficulty of proving ourselves equal to the great task devolved upon...
Finally the 25-year-old Son of Heaven, his visage grief-stricken, repeated, as he assumed his rank a traditional formula...
...Confronting the imperial death unexpected, we are bowed in grief. The throne, however, cannot be left vacant even for a day. We hereby accede to the mandate of the gods, accepting the imperial throne of Japan. Seated upon this throne, invariable and immovable from time immemorial, we acknowledge our heritage of the great power to rule. We pledge to uphold the glorious traditions of our imperial ancestors. We pledge to uphold the constitution and work for the glory and greatness of Japan in compliance with the vast program of our imperial ancestors...
Every week, every day, a bird's-eye view of the world contains many humans soaring off the earth, flitting about, coming to grief or glory. Last week's bird's-eye view included the following sights...
...assert as dogmatically as Mr. Gorman seems to do one's conviction that he was far astray. In judging his character apart from his work the biographer says that he was not troubled by the "perilous and incomprehensible moods and passions that animate the poet's soul," that his grief was real but "does not touch those dark levels of tragedy that mark great love affairs," that "his nature, be it repeated again, is not deep but shallow." All this may be true, but how be sure? Admitting that all the moods and passions and dark levels of tragedy...