Word: heartbroken
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...lead wilting as the rural vote for Mr. Pinchot piled up. Depressed, he went home to bed, remarked: "When I get up in the morning, I'll feel better." But in the morning he felt worse. Mr. Pinchot's vote had passed his while he slept. Heartbroken, he refused to concede defeat even when the Pinchot forces were celebrating their victory...
...visited the home of one Carlton Gates in Yonkers, stood for half an hour in rapt contemplation of a beautiful Maximilian helmet. Four years later Carlton Gates died, his effects were sold at auction. Ten-year-old Bashford Dean insisted on being taken to the auction, was heartbroken when the cherished helmet went for more money than he could afford. Clutched in his small and studious fists he did carry away from that sale two engraved daggers which became the nucleus of the Dean armor collection. It was typical of him that to the day of his death he never...
...conferences brought him the warm personal friendship of French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, now Prime Minister of France. For five years Stresemann and Briand made a team that worked constantly, effectively for pan-European goodwill. Told of the death of his ruddy-faced teammate, rheumy Prime Minister Briand seemed heartbroken last week. Quickly he sent official messages of condolence to the German Embassy in Paris, the German government, followed them with a very personal message for his friend's wife: "I beseech you to believe in my sorrowful sympathy in the mourning which strikes you so cruelly. I shall...
...when the boy Joseph found his beloved already heavy with child, he was quite heartbroken. He said nothing, but he reflected how he might put his betrothed from him, gently and without scandal, because he loved her notwithstanding. While he pondered thus one night the Angel came to him, and said: "Fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins." So Joseph was reassured...
Drooping over the paper he wrote too: "I am most heartbroken over the necessity, but with no more resources it is better this way. . . . My family is upstairs, quiet...