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...from B. V. D.'s out) and repulsed all male attention with a temperamental corselet of ice triplex. The reason Gita abhorred men and wanted to be one, was merely psychological. Fast friends of her brutal, gambling father had attempted her when young. Also, her mother had had a grievous cohabitation...
Enrico Ratti, papal cousin in Milan, was run into by a bicyclist, suffered grievous injuries. The Supreme Pontiff at Rome was notified of the accident...
...merest guess proves correct, Congress made a grievous miscalculation...
Oxford was weak. Grip had come upon her crew, afflicted man after man with grievous coughs, so that, on the day of the race, an oarsman who had been in training only seven days had to he substituted at bow. Cambridge was not strong. Her eight sturdy rowers pulled strongly, smoothly; but there was in that boat a weakness in which, Oxford thought, Fortune might insert a wedge. That weakness was A. G. Wansborough, stroke. Thrice in the preceding week he had "caught a crab...
...hours, with two suspensions, the Chamber was in an uproar. A dozen fist fights ensued between the acrimonious Opposition and the enraged Government Parties. The noise was so appalling that Premier Herriot was twice obliged to leave the tribunal. Ballot boxes were hurled through the air. Peacemakers suffered grievous injuries of a temporary nature. No insult was insulting enough to be hurled at an opponent...