Word: lamentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made themselves specialists in foreign countries, cultivating good relations not only as good business but as a patriotic duty. Last week in Manhattan, at the annual session of the Academy of Political Science, a businessman who is a specialist on Japan spoke some far-reaching words. That Banker Thomas Lament's words would be heard in Tokyo seemed certain, for the House of Morgan was once U. S. banker for Japan. That some of his words would suggest to Japanese how they looked to Western eyes also seemed certain: "I have made many friends in China and scores...
...Lament points...
Dust hath closed Helen's eye-"It was quite irrelevant, really, a lament by Nashe in time of pestilence. . . . Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion...
...obvious, ear-catching effects, but it kept pace with Mrs. Biddle's ballad: an evocation of Negroes gathering in a pine clearing after the white folks have lynched their man and gone. A tall, handsome Negro, Louise Burge, let out a big, warm voice in the lament of the lynched man's mother...
...shed crocodile tears over 'poor Belgium' or 'poor Holland,' " wrote anonymous Commentator "Blackshirt" in Bologna's Resto del Carlino the day after Germany's new invasion began last week (see p. 22). "It is not for Fascist Italy to lament the fate that has overtaken two sanctionist countries, worm-eaten by democracy and anti-Fascism...