Word: dolefullness
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For eagles in cages, chained raccoons, doleful bobcats leashed to posts on the lawns of Western hotels; for dancing bears, monkeys leashed to street organs; for imprisoned hawks, falcons, caracals and creatures robbed of their swiftness; for leopards padding up and down in cages and lions whose pale eyes blaze...
"It was from the time these doleful predictions came true . . . [that] I beg.an my work . . . striving to reach a formula of security . . [which] led me to Locarno.
Dr. Charles Horace Mayo was born in Rochester in 1865-three years after his father had come there from Le Sueur. He graduated from the Chicago Medical College,* began at once to practice with his father and his elder brother, William J. (born in 1861). The citizens of Rochester generally...
Tremendous crowds lined the streets as troops advanced along them to the doleful strains of the Dead March, their rifles reversed, their legs doing a slow, rhythmic, painful imitation of the goosestep. The sombre field-grey gun-carriage, bedecked with floral tributes, came next, bearing its coffin shrouded in a...
Hannele. Funeral parlors dramatized, with typical obituary poetry thrown in. Gerhardt Hauptmann's morbid work has been revived at special matinees seemingly so that Eva Le Gallienne may have a good time dying. In the almshouse of a mountain village, she moans and moons through dreams of her mother...