Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...autoist who loaned him a suitable wrench. His plane repaired, he sped to Manchester and civic glory. Meanwhile a Manchester crowd, informed by telephone of the contretemps, burst into incredulous laughter, refused for some minutes to believe that the great hero-airman of Britain could have come to grief...
...Venerable brethren and beloved children, the Holy Father, through us, makes known to you that your grief is his grief and advises you that with you he also will join in the happiness of triumph and reminds you that, great as your sorrow may be, and if life appears intolerable, you must not become disheartened, for if you are to accompany Jesus Christ in His sorrow you will equally participate in His victories...
Upon his death, the Princess ("bowed with grief in her first youth" according to Victorian journalists) summoned all her self possession and was married, 18 months later, to her late fiance's brother, who became George V. Did Her Majesty recall last week the notoriously blameless life of the late Duke of Clarence whose official biographer, J. Edmund Vincent, could find nothing worse to say of him than that at Cambridge he "went at shocking hours...
...piece of debris into another propeller, smashing it and leaving the plane with only one propeller to land by. It was an unforseeable accident, due not so much to mechanical deficiency as to ill luck. Aeronauts mourned that the most widely advertised of commercial ships should thus come to grief and shake public confidence in the very event most calculated to promote flying...
...about any local strife* within the party which nearly always arises from the stupidest motives." Anti-"Vacationist." To prevent the flight of the Italian lira abroad in the pockets of vacationing Italians, all passport offices were instructed to refuse passports to "vacationists." Signor Mussolini publicly expressed last week his grief at the death of Commander Oscar Cosulich, one of his closest industrial advisors. (See MILESTONES, p.29...