Word: mourn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years earlier, had seen the girl Victoria take the crown. She had seen the entire reign of William IV. And in 1830, at the age of 5-two years after she had mastered the little hieroglyphics that are the alphabet-she remembered donning a little black and white mourning frock for George IV, may he rest in peace. Last week, Britain mourned for her, and Britain had a right to mourn for the mother of so much of Britain's virtue: mother of Viscount Haldane of Cloan, twice Lord Chancellor; mother of Miss Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, scholar and first...
...scorn of Kings. The Tsar of all the Russias made him court painter. One day he painted a picture of the Crucifixion-Holy Mary, in peasant costume, her face twisted with anguish, weeping over the naked body of her peasant son. The authorities condemned the painting. Should peasants mourn their woes where privilege looked on? They displayed it in public with brands of white chalk smeared over its surface. Furious, Painter Bakst renounced the Court, left Russia with his wife, who had been Mlle. Tretiakov, daughter of a former Mayor of Moscow...
...hardly worth the paper on which they are printed. . . ." But, by way of contrast, and apparently commended, the vogue for Literary Annuals and Gift Books- the Casket of Love, Deivdrops Gathered and Presented in Their Brightness and Purity, the Cypress Wreath, a Book of Consolation for Those Who Mourn...
...sagacious Solomon admitted that "there's a time to mourn" which passed with the funereal mid-years "and a time to dance." And yearly the Junior Dance Committee has passed favorably on this piece of philosophy. Tonight another unprovoked attack will be made on the staid venerability of that grand gallery of austere men who look down with monitorial visage from Memorial's walls. To be sure, Roosevelt and a few other liberals may approve, stirred with the memory of past days, but there will be others imbued with the spirit of Jonathan Edward who will dourly regard a youth...
...unfriendly people, each in actuality ruler; each was the largest of bitter hatred and disgusting contumely in life; each died a violent death at the hands of rebellious subjects. But there the parallel ends, for Queen Jezebel lacked in life friends or faithful servants, nor were there any to mourn her dead saving her tiring-women. A foreigner among foreigners, civilized among barbarians, of race and religion different from her own, a king's daughter overcome by dishonorable tricksters and dying a dishonorable death at their hands--to be this was tragedy enough...