Word: lamentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the editors who have later become prominent in various fields of activity are Messrs. Curtis Guild '81, Thomas William Lament '92, Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04, William Roscoe Thayer '81, the late Barrett Wendell '77, and Owen Wister...
Lorca's Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, translated in this volume, has no equal among modern elegies for directness in the vision of death and for symphonic magnificence of form. Mejias was a torero, an Andalusian and friend of Lorca's, who died after a goring...
Miss Albert's selections included well-known and representative folk music from all parts of the United States, in addition to such staple English ballads as 'Lord Randall." Her renditions of the western ballad, "The Cowboy Lament" and John Jacob Niles' arrangement of "I Wonder" met loud applause from her listeners...
...patience is being sorely taxed . . . when I see people who lament high prices and openly declare . . . that rationing of any kind is not for them. Maybe they did get their dander up about rationing once before, but that was forced. This time it is voluntary, and the people who should know say that it will reduce the fat prices we have to pay now. . . . What in hell is wrong with our people that they won't cooperate, when it is to their own benefit...
Singing is her only love. "I have no beau." Susie sighs. "Men are wonder full but they always run the other way." One of the songs the successful vocalist sings these days is an old melancholy lament, 'I'm sad and I'm Lonely...