Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once, asked to omit stories exploiting the grief of bereaved families, the Mirror declined in terms that capsuled the Bartholomew credo: "Are editors to be asked to say that this or that is not nice news? ... A news editor with that type of mind would be like a general with a conscientious objection to killing. . . . The London press is already too niminy piminy." When other British national papers were niminy piminy about the story of Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson, the Mirror broke...
...children were laid in a neat row, side by side. Each child's hands were carefully clasped on his breast, each tiny fist held a flower. When the parents and relatives arrived from Milan, one Italian reporter wrote, the grisly hall became "a wild whirlpool of grief and insanity...
...opinions. Sample: "It looks so bad to have a thing like that happen in your house." The United Press found her looking pretty chipper, with a new French boy friend and a pair of silver slippers. But Hearst's I.N.S. had her afloat in tears of grief. Both apparently neglected to ask Virginia how Bugsy happened to have a golden key to her house...
godin, who pitched creditably, came to grief on hits to right field, where Len Lunder had trouble with two long drives that resulted in home runs and produced three B. C. runs. The Eagles scored in the first inning when Frank O'Sullivan's vicious double to left scored John Brosnahan, who had walked, from first base...
...Bagwell, Husky righthander, finally ran into grief in the sixth, when the Crimson reached him for three hits and four runs. Forte walked to open the inning, and Caulfield sacrificed him to second. Billy Fitz then delivered the first Varsity safety, a single to right field, scoring Forte...