Word: heartbreaking
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Owing to the sudden illness of the leading actress, last night's opening of East House's production of heartbreak House was postponed. The play will be held tonight, Saturday, and Monday at 8:30 p.m. in Agassiz Theatre...
Misalliance, by George Bernard Shaw. Halfway to Heartbreak House but twice as blithesome and half as apocalyptic, this 1910 play gives the Edwardian British upper classes the chance to talk their heads...
...Heartbreak Houses. In London, homeless mothers and children are boarded at their own expense (from $14 a week) at one of five London County Council centers, where husbands are allowed to visit only in the evenings until 9:30, and for a few hours at weekends. One of the biggest is South London's Newington Lodge, a grim, high-walled pile of sooty red brick. Known in welfare-state parlance as "suitable alternative accommodation"-though it lacks a sick bay, nursery, playroom and adequate toilets-Newington Lodge last week held 266 women and children from 72 fragmented families...
...some institutionalized heartbreak houses, officials conduct a midnight bed check to make sure that husbands have not climbed back in over the walls. Many marriages do not survive the ordeal. "Once you lose your home," says a harassed welfare worker, "you stand to lose your husband, then your children as well." At one L.C.C. hostel the inmates strap their valuables to their bodies at night. Families are allowed to stay at such hostels only for three months. After that, if they are still homeless, they are often forced to put their children in public boarding homes. London County Council alone...
...school, a fast-driving, wild-boozing, hard-gambling skeesicks who goes snuffling after every girl in town, including the parson's daughter. She rejects his propositions in horror, but in the ironic conclusion she comes tenderly round to his way of thinking, only to discover in horror and heartbreak that he has come round to hers...