Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hands enfolded a crucifix resting upon his breast. This was Kevin Christopher O'Higgins, in life Vice President and Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. Three undetected gunmen had murdered him from their automobile (TIME, July 18); and last week Free State citizens seemed even more grief-stricken than after the murder in 1922 of the first provisional head of the Irish Free State, Michael Collins...
...newspaper conditions as he has observed them. His has been a story of destitute thousands forming shamefaced breadlines; of stagnant waters, breeding places of countless mosquitoes; of a lost cotton crop and a lost corn crop; of the collapse of the credit system hastily thrown together to relieve the stricken area. Mr. Speers writes as no sensation monger and the Times, though Democratic in policy, has never been an extremist organ, has even opposed the calling of a special flood session of Congress. Yet Mr. Speers has pictured widespread desolation made even more gloomy by the thought of what...
...newsgatherers' heels came bishops from Connecticut, New Jersey, Colorado. These congratulated, reassured him. Surely, they might have said, the Episcopal Church need not fear being interpreted as a champion of divorce. Dr. Silver's divorce took place a long time ago. He has never remarried and has stricken mention of an unhappy episode of his youth from public records of his life. His reputation is high and enviable, as Nebraska pastor (1894-1901), as; U. S. Army chaplain (1901-10), as mission secretary for the southwestern U. S. (1910-13), as chaplain of West Point...
...been lost in the flood. Deaths by states: Arkansas, 59; Mississippi, 42; Louisiana, 9; Tennessee, 2; Illinois, 2. This list includes only positively verified deaths. Unofficial figures have put the death total at from 350 to 500. Arkansas and Mississippi were not flooded so extensively as Louisiana, but were stricken before organized relief work could get under...
...Melville. One evening last week some 1,000 residents of Melville, La., went serenely to their beds. Doubtless most of them gave their last waking thoughts to the flood waters bearing down from the north. Yet they were hardly excited, much less panic-stricken...