Word: heartbroken
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...last minute she wires Naomi that she cannot come, cannot face it. The little boy is heartbroken, recovers in time to meet his stepfather, who comes instead, in a well-meaning but highly nervous condition. At his first marvelous sight of Paris at night, the little boy forgets his dreamed-for mother and his tragic...
...case, similar to Burr's, was quashed. Glamorous Aaron Burr went on to 29 more years of life and a succession of political intrigues which were as consistently disastrous as his amatory adventures were successful. Blennerhassett went back to his island in the Ohio. Bankrupt and heartbroken at his mansion's ruin, Blennerhassett moved farther south, settling on 1,000 acres of cotton land at St. Catherine's, Miss. Meantime, Blennerhassett Island had been rented to a friend, who subsequently was dispossessed. Creditors took over the estate, leased it to a farmer who stowed part...
...lives in the Midwest but has a burning love of boats and the sea. He adores his young teacher (Francesca Burning) because she hails from New Bedford, knows what a jibboom is, encourages his enthusiasm. When Dewey finds her kissing the athletic coach, whom he also idolizes, he is heartbroken, persuades his bumbling father (Frank M. Thomas Sr.) to send him to boarding school. Twenty years later Dewey, now an extremely important personage in the shipping industry encounters the teacher, dowdy and myopic, in a Washington hotel, is tempted to take her to dinner, buys her a bunch of violets...
Only 18 months after the death of her husband, King Albert, Dowager Queen Elizabeth heard the news in Naples where she was visiting her daughter, Crown Princess Marie Jose of Italy. Her first move was to accept heartbroken King Leopold's request that she take care of his three motherless children: Crown Prince Baudoin, 5, Princess Josephine, 7, Prince Albert, 14 months...
...other members which eventually left them gasping and amazed. In 1923, on the death of Prime Minister Bonar Law, he maneuvered the great Lord Curzon, heavy with prestige and scintillant with dazzling intellect, completely out of the picture, becoming himself Prime Minister for the first time. Lord Curzon, heartbroken but even more amazed, ejaculated before bursting into the tears of a slight nervous breakdown: "Stanley Baldwin? A man of no consequence whatever...