Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Samuel Livingston Mather Jr., 15, son of the Cleveland steel tycoon, by hanging himself with a belt looped over the top of a door in his bedroom; in Mentor, Ohio. Reason assigned: grief for his mother who died last June. His father was just landing in Europe when the news came...
...thought the world was progressing. Then the War came. His two sons were killed, his favorite daughter died of exposure. His parishioners turned against him, suspected him of stealing the church treasure, of burning the rectory to cover his tracks. His wife grew old, went nearly demented from grief and hard times. Gradually, painfully, things got better. Adam, a modern Job, won through like his famed prototype...
...same demand that France has been making at every disarmament conference since the War. It has always come to grief through Washington's insistence that the U. S. cannot enter any European political alliance. Last fortnight the policy of Isolation apparently went by the board when the U. S. took the lead in an international economic conference. Was the U. S. thinking of giving up her political isolation too? The idea was certainly at the back of many French minds last week...
...flippancies of a decadent court, preceded and precipitated the French Revolution. Large somber canvases, they exclude flippancy and tell, with a dignified and almost Alexandrine rhythm, the most ennobling dramas of classical history-The Rape of the Sabines, Leonidas at Thermopylae, The Oath of the Horatii, Brutus, The Grief of Andromache and, most somber and perhaps imposing of all, the Death of Socrates-called, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, ''the greatest effort of art since the Sistine Chapel and the Stanze of Raphael...
...lives on a large farm near Stephens, Ark. Brother Fred's conviction filled his mother with shame and anguish. Last week Brother Lawrence declared that he had "no apologies to offer" for Brother Fred's pardon, that he had issued it largely because of his "grief-stricken mother." Two days later he went to a raspberry festival at Wynne where he told merrymakers: "You people of Cross County are all my friends and don't hesitate to call on me for help. Remember, I can still grant pardons...