Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grievous loss which I and my family sustained by the death of my beloved mother is first in my thoughts. It has been a solace to me in my grief to have received from all conditions and classes in all parts of my dominions and from all foreign countries touching assurances of their deep sympathy in my sorrow and expressions of their affectionate regard for one who was enthroned in the love of my people...
Merchants of Glory. The Theatre Guild has selected a War play which is possibly just a trifle blunted by the years since the Armistice. It tells of a French father whose son was killed in the conflict and who has been thriving ever since on his grief. He is a hero; he is to be elected to public office because the public has become so sympathetic with his sorrow. Just at the wrong moment the dead offspring turns up and trips...
Fridays for Catholics and Anglicans are days of abstinence through the year, for pious folk would keep in perpetual grief for the crucifixion of Jesus on Good Friday. Arid yet in certain years one Friday becomes a day of joy of feasting-the Friday on which Christmas falls, as this year. The Nativity blots out the shadow of death; birth is more important than death...
...cooperates in selecting sites for monuments, makes plans for their dedication and memorial, and keeps them cleaned and decorated. At his command, the United States flag flings its challenge of pride from the tops of public buildings, or at half mast expresses grief at the loss of a patriot...
...entire life is devoted to affairs, which he loves with a passion, whether they be great or small: or, rather, there are none for him of this latter class." Indeed, neither business disasters which impaired his fortune, the bitter calumnies of a few political enemies, nor his private grief at the death of his wife and of his son Joseph, worn out in the service, could deter this stalwart patriot from giving the fullest measure of service to the cause in which he had a high and reverend faith...