Word: heartbreaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...import of the nation's other battles swam back into focus again, like mountains seen after rain. There were the battles of World War II on many fronts, and of the peace somewhere beyond. And, as always in war, there was the personal struggle of thousands with heartbreak, loneliness and loss...
Hunger and Heartbreak. He lived for a year and a half in the slums of London. He lived on tea and buns, learned what it felt like to faint from hunger. He rented an abandoned studio, slept on the models' stand, with a moth-eaten bearskin for a blanket. When his salary at a press-clipping agency was upped to 30 shillings a week, he was in clover. In Sussex, in a farmhouse that had once been a priory, in a big sunny room with casement windows, he wrote his first, brilliantly titled, critical book, The Wine...
Your stark, epic portrait [TIME, May 8] of General Wainwright is the most challenging pictorial document of the war. His face illuminates all the tragedy, stoicism and heartbreak that men everywhere are enduring. As a shaming denunciation of "life as usual" and as a great inspiration for sacrifice it is unsurpassed...
...Heartbreak House. Last week, with George Bernard Shaw sitting by her bedside at their home in Whitehall Court, London, death came to Charlotte Shaw. Three days later she was cremated at Golder's Green crematorium, with Shaw, his secretary and Lady Astor the only attendants. At the funeral of Mrs. H. G. Wells, 16 years before, Shaw had told Wells to enter the furnace room. "It's beautiful," he said. "I saw my mother burnt there. You'll be glad if you go." Wells went and returned to say: "It was indeed very beautiful...
...Hard Way (Warner) is the old Hollywood story about a harpy who claws her way up the ladder to fame, riches and disaster. The plot, a corny tale of heartbreak and backstabbing in the show business, has almost no surprises. But thanks to the adept treatment of this routine material, The Hard Way is a fine film, one of the best thus...