Word: lamentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last autumn Columbia's President Nicholas Murray Butler surveyed the intricacies of modern education, thought of his own simple school days in Elizabeth, N. J., emitted a nostalgic lament: "It has become customary to abuse and sneer at the little red schoolhouse of two generations ago, but if that little red schoolhouse was presided over by a teacher of rich and warm personality ... it was an almost ideal educational instrumentality...
...tradition, Son Harry to the securities tradition. Born in London, Harry Morgan married Charles Francis Adams' daughter Catherine one week after graduation from Harvard in 1923. He went promptly to work and was admitted to the firm six years later along with two other sons of partners?Thomas Stilwell Lament and Henry Pomeroy Davison. Harry Morgan is youthful in appearance but by reputation he has the money-making drive of his late grandfather...
Born in Alder Gulch, Mont, in 1869, son of a well-to-do timberman, Thompson went to school at Exeter, was popular but undistinguished, formed a friendship with Thomas W. Lament that lasted all his life...
...meanings. Gone are the days when men were men and jokes were jokes. The inexorable censor has done his work. Within a few short weeks he has changed vivacious "Lampy" into reading matter fit for the suckling babe, has transformed the flirtatious courtesan into the demure virgin. Thus we lament the decease of a spirit which filled our hearts with glee and our minds with filth. Death to the censors! Ormond L. Trimble...
Awake and Sing! (by Clifford Odets; Group Theatre, Inc., producer) is an earnest investigation of the home life of a family of Bronx Jews. The burden of Playwright Odets' lament is that the Bergers and their friends would not be so wretched if it were not for the crushing tyranny of the capitalist system. Grandfather Berger, an old Marxist, would not be compelled to jump off the roof in despair. Daughter Hennie would not have to marry a simpleton after Moe Axelrod, the embittered disabled veteran, gives her a baby. Son Ralph would not have to pine...