Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inconsidered and rash Act of the Corporation created the annex across the Common. Like Frankenstein's, this hideous monster now threatens to turn and devour its master and creator. Tell the man whose house is on fire to be calm, but urge not temperance on me while this grief blot still remains on the Harvard escutcheon! I demand the immediate suppression of the R----e Table on the grounds of indecency. R. Llewelyn Brill...
...emanated from the general boredom like marsh gas from a swamp. In the streets of Paris, strange, melancholy figures appeared; many were dressed as widows, though France then had few casualties. Mourners were seen in uncommon numbers. Presently the French police realized that these widows' weeds, this ostentatious grief were deliberate weapons in the Nazi war of nerves. Finally, nervously, the police arrested some, found, sure enough, they were professional mourners, not going to any funeral. Said Edmond Taylor, in The Strategy of Terror: they had been hired "to travel around in public conveyances wearing deep mourning and giving...
...days later, Mitchel Field's officers read their neighborhood newspaper, found themselves the objects of bitter denunciation in a letter which subsequently got into other papers. Eloquent with grief, written with telling effect it was addressed by Mrs. I. Arthur Kramer, mother of one the children, to Eleanor Roosevelt...
Once the seamstress saw Lincoln bend gently over his wife, take her by the arm and lead her to the window. "Pointing to the battlements of the Insane Asylum . . ." he said, "Mother, do you see that large white building on the hill yonder? Try and control your grief, or it will drive you mad, and we may have to send you there." And all the while, "like a drug for her tortured nerves, she indulged in her orgies of buying things . . . things she could never use, for which she could never hope to pay." In four months she bought...
...George to another, Britain's King cabled Greece's last week a message of heartfelt condolence: "Britain shares the grief of the Greeks at the loss of Crete." Britain's grief was indeed deepseated, but it was not entirely sentimental. Not until last week had the full significance of the loss of Crete, in terms of British war effort, come home to the British people...