Word: heartbroken
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Long after he has lost his family and, heartbroken, has retired from "business," he does get caught. By this time he is firmly convinced that good & evil are inextricably mingled-and has come to believe that he is not more essentially evil than good...
...JOHN (HEARTBROKEN) McNuLTY New York City...
...fought with Pershing on the Mexican border. In World War I he had served in France, where he was wounded, gassed and decorated. In 1939, a major general, he commanded and trained Pennsylvania's famed 28th Division. But when war came again, Old Soldier Martin was retired. Heartbroken, he saw his 28th march off under another man's command...
...million, twice the 1922 figure; the Palestinian Jews number over half a million. The springs of Jewish colonizing vigor, amply fed by the money of world Jewry, flowed out on to the desert. U.S. Jews have contributed almost $100 million to Palestine, invested $50 million more. The "hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land," which Mark Twain saw in 1867, was dotted with green fields and citrus groves...
Falstaff's death scene, for which the speeches were lifted bodily from Henry IV, Part 2, is boldly invented. The shrunken, heartbroken old companion of Henry's escapades (George Robey, famed British low comedian) hears again, obsessively, the terrible speech ("A man ... so old and so profane. . . .") in which the King casts him off. In this new context, for the first time perhaps, the piercing line, "The king has kill'd his heart," is given its full power. In the transition scene which takes the audience from Falstaff's death to the invasion of France...