Word: stricken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public funeral was held the next morning. The president of the Village Soviet, slightly conscience-stricken, allowed the local priest to officiate...
...three political parties. The secret had leaked out−after months of official concealment−that President William T. Cosgrave of the Irish Free State has been challenging the authority of the Crown Council as at present constituted. All ordinary powers of the King-Emperor were signed over by stricken George V (TIME, Dec. 17), to this Council, which consists of the Prime Minister, Lord High Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of York, Edward of Wales and Queen Mary, who has thus far presided. Cables from Dublin revealed that the Irish Free State has been quietly refusing...
...Collins, 2OI½ Ibs., British, clumsy, looked down at one of his large feet last week and perceived that he had stove it right through the racing shell in which he and seven other Cambridge undergraduates were preparing to row, next week, against Oxford. He, the stroke, was stricken with mortification and dismay. Sticking your foot through the shell at rowing is equivalent to trampling a hound in a hunt or blowing off your neighbor's hat at a grouse shoot. Fortunately for Cambridge, a new shell had already been ordered. When a shell was damaged in 1906 just...
Sudden pains came, and the Queen Mother tossed restlessly. Midnight tolled. Maria Christina grew pale, livid, and drops of sweat stood on her brow. She had been stricken with angina pectoris?paroxysms of the heart. Hot applications slightly eased the paroxysms, but before a priest arrived, at 2 a. m., the Queen Mother was unconscious. Last rites were administered, though Maria Christina knew it not, and she died...
...Danish wife of the famed Dutch aircraft builder Anthony H. G. Fokker; by a 15-floor fall from her apartment window; in Manhattan. Mrs. Fokker had spent weeks in a hospital with a nervous breakdown. Her death occurred on the evening of her return, while her husband dozed. Grief-stricken, he had to be restrained from leaping after...