Word: grievously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seashore, he tried again, became hopelessly deranged, attempted to burn his home. His wife worked as a postmistress, retrieved him from an asylum. Paralysis crept through his legs. But his clouded mind cleared for the final instant before death. "Dear wife," he said. For her, shattered by faithful, grievous years, it was enough...
...defeat. Harvard's opponents are mostly of the big-college-powerfully-built type who plan to have their open attacks carefully checked by driving line offensives in critical moments. To have a pair of weak guards who will wilt under heavy battering is to be under a handicap so grievous that it may be termed almost fatal...
...While good Prince Johann lived, Prince Franz would never have acted this way!" mourned many a grey-bearded householder, and indeed the scandal appeared grievous, for last week His Highness brought home as his wife, to rule with him in Liechtenstein, a mere commoner, Frau Elsa von Eroes of Vienna, with whom he has lived in clandestine, morganatic marriage for the last ten years...
...changed from his own blood-spattered clothes to Mr. Eaton's, had left behind a razor and a block of wood. Although $4,000 had been stolen Scotland Yard did not think robbery was the sole motive. It was announced that two men were being trailed for "causing grievous bodily injuries." One J. Moore, 22, surrendered himself and was charged with deserting the Army, held for further questioning. The other, Roland Bateman, 22, also a suspected deserter, was more elusive. Detectives in a radio-equipped automobile tracked him to Southend-on-sea, found a boarding house which...
...representatives in Italy, noting the fate of the Board of Censors, trembled for the future of their cinema, wished earnestly that it had not committed the grievous error of showing Italian "human landscapes immersed in endless fogs...