Word: anguishingly
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Many Waters. It is a favorite axiom of dramatists that you never can tell what anguish has moulded the calm faces on the avenues. Monckton Hoffe, a British playwright, has for some time been demonstrating this fact in London with Many Waters, which permits you to live through the years with a little architect, James Barcaldine, and his pleasant wife. So tranquil are the Barcaldines that a theatrical impresario cites them as the sort of people who like twinkling artificial entertainment because their own lives are so fatuously real...
...forgotten that it was at the moment of Verdun that America joined us in the War? ... I had then the formidable honor of being the head of the Government of France. I know whereof I speak. The enemy was in the suburbs of Verdun. Those were hours of anguish! No one then believed that victory would perch upon our flags...
...Undaunted, he insists: ... I believe, and ride By this belief vast wings from star to star; From which I look on death beneath as a shadow Thrown from a mountain by the rising sun; . . . the love of truth, The love of love, in spite of all the loss, The anguish, reckless hatred of our kind Sustain and justify and help to prove The inscrutable mission of the million years, In -which each incident is destiny...
...Unique feature of this bank will be a bill-paying service for depositors. When a bill comes to the depositor's home, it is approved, sent to the bank and paid by the bank out of the depositor's funds. Thus the depositor is saved the mental anguish of writing a check and Scarsdale tradesmen receive prompt remittances...
...April evening in Manhattan five years ago, a slight, aquiline-featured man returned from a theatre to his room. No sooner had he crossed the threshold than lines of anguish twisted across his face and he fell dead from a heart attack. His death was unforeseen, but many of his friends believed that his health had been gravely impaired during the investigation of alleged construction faults in Nebraska's new $9,000,000 state capitol at Lincoln. That building, the friends claimed, was Architect Goodhue's sovereign design, imbued with all his prowess and pride. To hear...