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Word: griefs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...athlete that irks a dyed-in-the-wool fan. Gene Tunney found this out, and it is this jealousy, perhaps, of men who have acquired the stamp of education conferred by a college degree that has brought many a heavyweight champion of the Intercollegiate Boxing Association to grief in the "racket" of professional boxing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO HIM THAT HATH | 1/5/1929 | See Source »

...consideration of the fact that the Advocate once printed a review of one of my opera which, were I a vain man, must have caused me grief (the notice was headed 'Printed Matter' and contained the statements that my contribution to the art of beautiful letters was only a record of "what the Well Dressed Man will--write") and considering also that the Advocate's offices immediately adjoin my own tenement and that nightly the uproar occasioned by their service of the muse (consisting mostly of sounds of breaking glass and a song about a certain William, a nautical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEEBE FINDS CURRENT NUMBER OF ADVOCATE LITTLE ABOVE MEDIOCRE | 12/19/1928 | See Source »

...title would, as a matter of fact, apply to the play better if it were not a quotation. Author Caroline Francke is writing, not about the vengeance of romantic deities upon heroes, but about tiny people and their puny, terrible grief. So honestly does she do this and so honestly, if not brilliantly, do Eric Dressier and Ruth Easton, as well as the minor members of the cast, interpret her observations that the sorrows of small characters assume their true enormity and depth. There are moments of murmur about wage-slaves and capitalists which injure but do not destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...yapping terrier bitch of Edward of Wales, † whined disconsolately by day, all last week, and howled eerily by night. Servants at H. R. H.'s bachelor quarters in York House, London, could not quite shake off uneasy qualms aroused by the dog's palpable terror and grief. Suppose, just suppose the little bitch knew, with feminine intuition, that her master would never return. Absurd-yet Master Wales had set out, last week, to journey a long way away-to South & East Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Eastward, To Empire | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...gazing up through thick-lensed eyeglasses at her prodigious pupil. He recalled Iowa's apples, rabbits, nuts, fishing. He returned again to the Old Swimming Hole: "As an engineer I could devise improvements for that swimming hole," he said. "But I doubt if the decrease in mothers' grief at the homecoming of muddy boys would compensate the inherent joys of getting muddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Homecoming | 9/3/1928 | See Source »

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