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Word: griefs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Excellency, dazed with grief, was not at home to reporters last week, but month ago he was interviewed. At a long table sat a moth-eaten Grand Duke and a threadbare general of the Imperial Army holding in place a pair of trousers which His Excellency was pressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Romanov Relic | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...they try to act like citizens And rent them a nice little flat, About the third night they are invited to fight By a submachine gun rat-tat-tat. Some day they will go down together, And they will bury them side by side. To a jew it means grief, To the law it's relief, But it is deafh to Bonnie and Clyde.* But they did not bury them side by side, because Bonnie's mother objected. Their bodies lay in separate "funeral homes" while thousands of citizens filed past and they were put away in separate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Lovers in a Car | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

Caught in a forged chain of circumstantial evidence, Asther is convicted, sentenced to hang. Because of his wife's grief Kruger relents, tells police they have the wrong man, puts a bullet into his brain. Ably acted and directed, The Crime Doctor is noteworthy for the reptilian restraint with which Criminologist Kruger, without trying to trick his audience, commits his murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 21, 1934 | 5/21/1934 | See Source »

...foreign reader." He is the greatest of all Chinese poets by universal consent. Indeed so great is he that he needs not our "weak witness" of his name though very uncertain do we feel about his life and birth. And his poem Li Sao, the Exile's Grief, stands with the Riad, the Divine Comedy, the Paradise Lost, etc., in spite of its shortness in length. Chinese poetry, like any other poetry, is written primarily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 5/12/1934 | See Source »

...letter from the great parliamentarian Edmund Burke, indicating "grief, horror and disgust" at news of the French Revolution and surprise at the Marquis de La Fayette's failure to crush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Some Old Letters | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

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