Word: mournings
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...running down the stairs again I mourn...
...independent daily El Universal Gráfico. Its editor thought he smelt a Papist in charge of Roosevelt patronage. Belief that the President, impelled by the Church, would crack down on Mexico's counter-clerical government was so strong that the official daily National took time to mourn for "Calvin Coolidge, one of the highest representatives of the human race. . . . Under [his] administration Mexico became better understood. . . . He had the good judgment to send us Mr. Morrow...
...Flemish separatists, always a noisy group, were supposed to have marked pro-Nazi leanings. Belgium's frontier defenses cannot compare with the new steel and concrete chain of France, but all young Leopold could hear last week was the sound of guns, fired one every half hour, to mourn the death of his father...
...hair-trigger planners and schemers! They bob up on every side. . . . All are hellbent upon forcing their plans into operation just as an experiment. That old-fashioned quality of business mind usually, though inadequately, referred to as common sense seems to be passing out of existence. I mourn its passing...
...then inexplicably crashed. Both the pilot and Thomas Bat'a were killed. They were buried near each other in a nearby woodland cemetery. Last week at the exact moment of the crash, the House of Bat'a's 25,000 working partners gathered not to mourn but to dedicate. On a hill opposite the sprawling shoe works rises a brand new, two-story, ferroconcrete Bat'a Pantheon. Not a tomb-for the First Working Partner would never have wished that-the Pantheon is a mechanistic museum to Thomas Bat'a. Exhibits begin with the crude...