Word: heartbreaking
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...stories of refugees and another still by pure rumor, and another in retaliation for that and still another by rumor. The genius of India has ever been for myth, not rationality: and no man's reason may be expected to remain intact under the intricate chemistries of horror, heartbreak, revenge, the vertiginous contagion of mobs, a thousand years' collective, unconscious fertilization in allegiance to one faith and culture...
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John Jacob Astor III, 34, plum-shaped posthumous son of the Colonel* and half-brother of Vincent, was having a time with the Manhattan newspapers. They were breaking out all over with photos of a symmetrical 18-year-old girl in suburban Philadelphia, and stuff about her heartbreak. The girl, Virginia Jacobs, called him "Jackims." He was supposed to have had her on the qui vive since she was 15, but now she could not find him. She said he had talked of marrying her and "going to Paris, where we'd have lots of children" -that...
Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, whose only daughter was killed in a 1944 California motor accident, spoke as one who had experienced the "heartbreak . . . of such tragedy . . . of needless and useless traffic deaths," and called on U.S. communities to regard traffic violators as "potential murderers...
...barbershop harmonies of the period. But even such authentic musical backdrops as Moonlight Bay and Shine On, Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft's dalliance with the snobbish Nob Hill hussy, Harriet Carruthers (Joan Ben-nett...