Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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African and World Wars, a conscientious officer several times cited in despatches. The great honor done him, last week, may perhaps in some small measure distract his grief at the death of his son, Viscount Trematon, recently killed in a motor accident (TIME, April...
...died, although unhurt, simply of fright. Saddest of all was the tragedy of a father who had learned that his wife and five children were so gravely injured that Death might be expected to lay a cold hand upon all of them within a few hours. Maddened with grief, the poor man butted his head against a stone wall, suffered concussion of the brain...
...Hoover] is more exasperatingly evasive than the wicked wag whose sobbing young wife, when asked the cause of her grief, replied: 'Every time I asked my husband if he likes my biscuits he tells me that I have beautiful eyes.' [Laughter...
...full of motion and the suggestion of sound, but also because the scenes which they depict are now vanished. In these paintings-The Rathskeller, Philadelphia, Scrubwomen in the Old Astor Library, John Butler Yeats at Petitpas, The City from Greenwich-the figures have the frayed excitement, or the energetic grief that really appears in the faces of city people. Later, small, sparrowlike John Sloan left the city and painted in rock-bound Gloucester and puebloed Santa Fe. Recently he has been back again in Manhattan, painting cars and trolleys, houses with lighted doors and windows, loafers, little girls playing...
Victoriana. Her Majesty never possessed higher or more passionate epistolary powers than at the period covered by these letters (1879-1885).* Slashingly she underlines whole sentences and underscores two or three times her more emphatic phrases. The grand themes are first her grief at the political eclipse and final death of Benjamin Disraeli, "dear Lord Beaconsfield;" and secondly her rage at William Ewart Gladstone whom she would certainly have called a Bolshevik had the word then been invented...