Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...penny royalty for each performance, until he was killed during the War while serving as a Lieutenant. The second son, Michael, said to have supplied the inspiration of Mary Rose, was drowned five years ago while an undergraduate at Oxford. When Sir James heard this news his grief was great. He sat in a darkened room, refusing to see anyone...
...reaches of medicine could not keep pneumonia two years ago from striking at the wife of Lucius Nathan Littauer, wealthy glove manufacturer of Gloversville, N. Y. (onetime, 1897-1907, Republican congressman from New York), from filling her lungs until gasping, coma-stricken, she died. Mr. Littauer, like many another grief-stricken man,* resolved to aid medical science in uncovering knowledge that might have prevented her death. So last week he gave $5,000 to New York University for the study and cure of pneumonia, and promised to give another like amount every six months...
Outside the bells of Saint Gudule moaned the grief of the world. Women who had been praying for hours in the street outside the clinic crossed themselves once again; rose with stiffened knees and chilled bodies. "Requiem in aetemam dona eis, Domine," prayed all society. Lying in state at Malines on Sunday, the frail old body was approached with reverence by a long queue. They touched the hems o? hio robes, they brough/ pious tokens and keepsakes for the cold fingers to brush. Toward evening the line still stretched far down the dusky avenue. There was rioting before the doors...
Captain Tibbets, Miller, and Ballantyne were winners for the University in the mile run, 40-yard dash and hurdles respectively at the Knight of Columbus track meet in Mechanics Hall Saturday night. The University relay team came to grief when the fast Holy Cross combination arrived at the tape in the lead, and the Crimson Freshmen also lost to the Purple relay team...
...them to enter the Chamber yesterday, while we were all bowed with grief for the Queen who loved Fascismo so well, added the last touch of infamy to their brazen insults...