Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must for anyone handling the Elizabeth Short case. . . . What are the police? Baffled, hard-pressed, grim-faced, tightlipped. What is the victim? Beautiful, dark-haired, pretty. . . . What sort of crime is it? Fiendish. How was the body mutilated? Horribly. . . . What are members of the victim's family? Grief-stricken. When they are not baffled, hard-pressed, grim-faced or tightlipped, what are the police? Desperate. What is the public at large? Shocked. What does the killer face? The greatest man hunt in Los Angeles history...
Then it was time for Giuseppe Saragat, sometimes called the Leon Blum of Italy, and Nenni's bitterest enemy. He had come to secede. In a strong, clear voice he deplored "this moment of grief." He said: "Our party has fallen into the hands of men who no longer believe in its historical function as an independent party. If we had one hope in a thousand that we could redirect the present Socialist Party towards its true role, we would remain. This hope we do not have. We must give the laboring masses a true Socialist Party which...
...famous bronze in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery, generally called Grief. Adams was buried next to his wife, at the foot of the statue. Characteristically, he was much annoyed when people asked what Saint-Gaudens' seated, hooded figure symbolized. "Every magazine writer wants to label it as some American patent medicine for popular consumption - Grief, Despair, Pear's Soap or Macy's Men's Suits Made to Measure. [It is] meant to ask a question, not to give an answer; and the man who answers will be damned to eternity like the men who answered...
...William Beveridge (Full Employment in a Free Society) nor Henry Wallace (Sixty Million Jobs) had described how to fashion such a bridle. Beveridge merely outlined the problem: "So long as freedom of collective bargaining is maintained, the primary responsibility of preventing a full-employment policy from coming to grief in a vicious spiral of wages and prices will rest on those who conduct the bargaining on behalf of labor. . . . How real is this possibility [of inflation] cannot be decided on theoretical grounds. . . . But the fact remains that there is no inherent mechanism in our present system which can with certainty...
...comedy was based on the oldest precept of the cardsharp and the carnival grifter-"everyone has a little larceny in his heart." When he kicked Baby Le Roy, interrupted a moment of fraudulent grief to execute a moth, or eyed a sheriff with ponderous injured dignity, his audiences admitted their spottiness of soul and rejoiced...