Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...father's brutal activity, but to lead a purely intellectual life. The son obeys; as he grows there grow on him the habits of a bookish life. His power of action atrophies, and disaster dogs him. His wife runs away with an-other man, his two daughters come to grief because he does not know how to help them, does not notice till too late that they need his help. Left finally alone, he goes mad, sits fingering the old African drum his father brought back from the bloody jungle...
...ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Young, bold and persuasive, that same summer he organized for his pastorate the Church of the Atonement, now called Church of Our Savior's Atonement, important Lutheran congregation in upper Manhattan. Seven years ago Mrs. Knubel died. After two years' grief he married Jennie C. Christ of Manhattan. Presidency of the United Lutheran Church caused him to drop pastorate. Now he commutes daily from his New Rochelle home to his Manhattan office off Fifth Avenue, whither the half-dozen religious organizations of which he is a trustee or officer go for counsel...
...Greater grief had no nation last week than Britain. Not only the mother country but her children sorrowed. Every armory throughout the Dominions half-staffed its flag for the R-IOI (see p. 24). Bounding from his bed at news of the disaster, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald hurried to the Air Ministry, remained there more than an hour as bulletin after bulletin added horror to the ghastly story. When it was certain that the Air Minister himself had perished, Mr. MacDonald said: "To me no one can now fill his place of genial companionship and friendship. Only those...
Master of India & Tycoon. To the great grief of political rivals, who had thought Lord Birkenhead would quietly retire like most Lord Chancellors when his term expired, he rushed back to stumping for the Conservative Party. Grateful for such dynamic aid, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, lazy, muddling, made him Secretary of State for India in the last Conservative Cabinet (TIME...
...originally from Bismarck, N. Dak. My great-grandfather was a personal friend of Lincoln and outfitted a company with his own resources in the Northern army. Relatives and friends still reside in Bismarck. The second mistake was this: Precieuse did not commit suicide. ". . . In the agony of her grief, the white had striven to reassert itself. But now, as she threw her body forward and felt herself falling, even in that instant, the black finally triumphed. "Instantly the fear of a suicide's death stiffened the grip of her strong fingers on the willow branch. "Too late. The brittle...