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...beautiful daughter Tama. They have two sons, live a happy life-until news of the war in China leaks through the almost impenetrable censorship. When the Japanese begin bombing Shanghai, Iwan goes home to fight. But before he does so, he and Tama have made their private peace. Stoically heartbroken Tama vows to keep his photograph surrounded with flowers, not to let their sons forget...
While she was being sentenced to 60 days, word came that a posse had got Jim Godwin. Hefty, heartbroken Lulu Belle wept again. That report was false, but after Bill Wilson lost his nerve, sneaked away and squealed, they did get Godwin, subdued him with a load of bird shot in the face. He still swore he had planned to come back for Lulu Belle and go straight -after he had robbed enough gas stations. Lulu Belle, out on $200 bail and hiding her fat red face at home, didn't believe him this time. She had found...
...century English upper-class society, he called one "Heartbreak House" and the other "Horseback Hall." Last week in Washington, an exhibition at the new branch gallery of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art showed the spick & span art of Horseback Hall as it was in its far from heartbroken heyday in the 19th Century. Among 60 pictures, most of them hunting and racing scenes, were examples by such eminent specialists as Henry Alken, Benjamin Marshall and the stagecoach driver, John Frederick Herring, favorite of George IV and Queen Victoria. Fox-hunting gentry from nearby Virginia and Maryland also found...
With the sorrowing lyrics of James Joyce (see above), U. S. readers last week could compare a noted poem in a professionally heartbroken tradition. Ballads in the styles called cante hondo and cante flamenco had been made up and sung by guitarristas in Andalusia for centuries before Spanish poets began consciously to exploit their simple metres and barbaric flair. In Spain and in Europe at large the acknowledged master of this school was Federico Garcia Lorca, a musician and theatrical producer who was shot by Fascist troops in Granada last year. His best poem, written in 1935, was the Lament...
...Raceland, in Louisiana's trench speaking Acadian community, Freddie John's fiancée, Waitress Louise St. Germaine of Napoleonville was heartbroken. His father showed the boy's last letter...