Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After centuries of Athens and Rome, Italy, everlasting heir of all beauty and grief, ceases neither to create nor to suffer, conscious that her wingless victory lies grasped in the palm of her almighty destiny...
...this was brought about, all this endured, because in 1924 the youthful scapegrace of the family, Daisuke Namba, attempted to slay Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan (TIME, Jan. 7, 1924). Though Daisuke was found guilty at an extraordinary session of the Supreme Court and hanged, his father, broken with grief and shame, resigned from the Diet, and enjoined upon his family and himself a voluntary retirement until Death should harvest their lives...
...research and advisory work now performed by the Bureau of Education in the Department of the Interior. The assembly unanimously adopted a report by investigators into the lot of the superannuated school teacher. What she dreads most is a lonely old age. To provide "companionship to prevent loneliness and grief" the Association will conduct a campaign to raise money for teacher homes...
...East Orange, N. J., type, early thwarted into respectability by his dyspeptic wife and his commutation ticket. The fun starts when he buys the low-hum, nickel-plated car which carried sprightly George and Marion Kerby into the next world. Passing the tree where they came to grief, Topper is joined by spiritistic versions of the Kerbys, and during the adventures that follow he comes to love them as childish prankers. The belated release of Topper is rather pathetic, but mirth is the tale's mother element. Topper tight; Topper in the courtroom with the ghostly Kerbys pulling the judge...
...grief of the devout, the writers of the New Testament neglected to give a satisfactorily complete description of Jesus. So little, so very little is known of His appearance that opportunity comes to many* for working out an elaborate thesis that He never existed...