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...married Miss Annie Pitcairn of Glasgow in 1891 (died 1909) and had two sons and two daughters. Both sons were killed in the War to the inconsolable grief of the ex-Premier, whose physical sufferings, long endured, were thereby considerably aggravated. Both daughters are still living to mourn their father: Lady Sykes, wife of Major General Sir Frederick Sykes, Controller General of Civil Aviation; Miss Catherine Law, who so admirably stood hostess for her father during his short tenure of office at No. 10 Downing Street...
Fortunately, there is comfort for those who would mourn the "good old times." Surviving in modern college life is a folk-dance as old as man, yet still living a natural healthy life. It is a primitive expression of primitive emotion; not a poor marble copy of the original. No one can tell the precise age of the snakes-dance. When Ashur-Nemid and Ozod-Pidach stole up behind their rivals and stabbed them in the back, Ozod put his hands on Ashur's shoulders and they whisked about triumphantly among the trees. No doubt Moses and his brethren rejoiced...
None can ever mourn his fate...
...will be difficult at the University to become accustomed to the loss of Robert Bacon. We mourn him not only as a former editor and a former Harvard man, but also as a great American who has passed from among...
...story is of an English father and mother whose son has been killed at the front. All the mother's actions outwardly portray her loss, she is obsessed with the idea of mourning and each night gathers her family together believing that they can receive spiritual messages from the son. The father--George Arliss--however, goes about his business pretty much as before, and people think he does not feel his son's death; indeed his wife, remembering the lack of demonstrative affection between father and son, thinks her husband unable to receive messages from the dead...