Word: lovelorn
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...florist, gamekeeper, director of outdoor sports, and censor of beauty, morals and safety. "He is the man who provides 'love nests' for the birds and squirrels in Washington's numerous parks and playgrounds, shelter for the park policemen, benches for the weary as well as the lovelorn, golf links, tennis courts, and bathing beaches for the thousands of Government workers. He blazes bridle paths through the cool woods, supervises the care of the flowers and cherry trees along the Potomac speedway, and provides the camp for summer tourists amid a setting of blooms and municipal gardens...
...lovelorn monk...
Tall as a white church-candle, her hair a decorous oval flame, a great lady stood on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. To the simpering music of Massenet she postured and sang, while a lovelorn monk pursued her. What should a monk have to do with so great, so good a lady? Ah, he was trying to save her soul from hellfire, for in the play she was not good at all. She was Maria Jeritza (Baroness Von Popper) pretending to be Thais (famed harlot) at the season's first performance of the opera of that...
...Lovelorn lads and lassies of all ages...
Engaged. Beatrice Fairfax (Miss Lilian Lauferty) to James Wolf, basso in the Metropolitan Opera Company. For ten years, Miss Fairfax has, in her syndicated writings, given advice and publicity to lovelorn lads and lassies of all ages...