Word: heartbreaking
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...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...
...voice the note of heartbreak-authentic heartbreak, worth its weight in theater gold...
...Last Night in the Old Home: a mixture of genuine and forced heartbreak which contains this line, spoken by a vapid, bitchy daughter: "That's the difficulty . . . there's nothing much they can do. Oh, mother is trying to rub out the places where we all used to be measured against the door...
...Goldwater wanted to retire, spend more time on his hobbies, writing verse and music. But the Mayor could find no one to fill the bill at $10,000 a year. The commissioner advertised in the papers for a $6,500-a-year deputy, promised him "at least one heartbreak a day . . . and at least one hearty laugh a week." Although some 200 men were bold enough to apply, none was acceptable...