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Word: lamentation (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with scorn Hamilton's "Your people, sir, is a great beast." Brooding on unemployment, hard times, strikes, revolutions, wars, he sees the people succumbing to one false leader after another, tricked and sold and again sold, learning slowly, always asking, "Where to? What next?" And he hears a lament of the poor that is unique among all the songs of poverty that other poets have heard: "/ earn my living. I make enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets & People | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...lament that Ethiopia has suffered invasion. We, with thousands of people of Great Britain, express the hope that the day will soon dawn when Ethiopia will regain her ancient independence and her rightful Emperor will return and, trusting in God, will continue to lead his people toward light and peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Selassie & Fiuggi | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...March, "Lorraine" Ganne *Overture, "Light Cavalry" Suppe *Indian Lament Dvorak-Kreisler *Rhapsody "Espana" Chabrier *A victory Ball Schelling Ave Maria Bach-Gouned *Overture Solennelle, "1812" Tchalkovsky *"Tales from the Vienna Woods," Strauss *Over There," World War Melody selection, "The Fighting Allies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/21/1936 | See Source »

...dissenters should be accepted as a contribution to the country and to the university itself." Such is the thesis of an article, "Harvard Heretics and Rebels," in the latest Harvard Advocate. The article was written by Roger N. Baldwin '05, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Corliss Lament '24. They point out Harvard is a place not of supreme indifference but of intelligently questioning persons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S BIG PRODUCTION OF DISSENTERS AID TO U. S. | 3/5/1936 | See Source »

Sharp-witted Partner Thomas W. Lament, who feared this pronouncement might not make good publicity, intervened in a fruitless attempt to persuade the correspondents to ignore it. Good were Mr. Lament's premonitions. Partner Morgan's opinions on the leisure class were kidded on the front pages of newspapers from coast to coast. Some editors pointed out that in 1930 there were less than 30,000,000 families in the U. S., all of which by no means had one servant. Others dug up the fact that there were less than 2,000,000 cooks and servants listed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Old Man's Leisure | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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