Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, while in the U. S. anxious men and women kept a nerve-straining vigil at Sand Cave where Floyd Collins was buried alive, and a horrified nation clung bravely to hope, crowds of weeping German women and children surrounded the Stein pithead, breaking police cordons in their desperate grief, while a whole nation poured out its sympathy...
...into under treaties affecting Grece. It was further alleged by the Greek Government that the Mixed Commission, which is overseeing the transfer of Greek and Turk to their respective lands, have decided that the Patriarch was unexchangeable*. Acting President Paul Koundouriotis canceled a diplomatic reception. As a sign of grief, Parliament was adjourned. Conscripts of the 1923 class, whose disbandment was ordered, were commanded to stay with the colors. War murmurs were...
...upon the delights of image and music than upon the more distinctly literary delights of diction. Just this quality of exciting power in phrase is strong in "Romantic Melancholy" by J. A. Abbott. "Angled twigs, skeletons of the summer, the gust surges through the trees in floods, the smother grief, and smother hope lest disappointment grieve, the range of hissing sea foam as its creamy lines slide down the sand"--almost every phrase is in itself alive with a sort of electric thrill. "Sharon" by Stuart Ayers is pleasantly young, pretty, musical in the ear that listens to "something singing...
Manhattan's East Side ghetto lay dank and dismal beneath a late autumn drizzle. In one narrow street, before a certain house, thousands of Jews milled about on the wet flagging and cobblestones, packing the whole block with their numbers. Grief was on their faces and in the low wailing that some set up as they waited. In the middle of the block stood a hearse...
...President canceled all his engagements for Oct. 27, directed the State Department to issue a proclamation of official mourning for the late Henry Cantwell Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture. With Mrs. Coolidge, the President called on Mrs. Wallace, later wrote her a letter: "His loss will be a grief to the entire nation, for his fine qualities and able, untiring services had endeared him to all the people...