Word: lovelorning
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With his famed Bintel Brief (Bundle of Letters), he started a lovelorn column. Circulation zoomed. The Forward became such a power that by 1918 it was able to break Tammany's hold on Manhattan's lower East Side, elect Socialist Meyer London to Congress...
...Orleans, Dorothy (Mrs. Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer) Dix, most durable (since 1896) of all the advice-to-the-lovelorn columnists, who admits to being almost 80, was in Touro Infirmary after suffering a stroke...
...Sensational Reversal. When the judges changed their verdict in an Olympic track meet, Smith called it "the most sensational reversal since Serutan." Towering (6 ft. 9 in.) Basketballer Harry Boykoff, guarding an opponent, "adopts the technique of a lovelorn octopus...
...feet. Romanus' wife, the Empress Zoe, fell in love with Michael, poisoned Romanus, married tickling Michael and made him Emperor, while Michael's brother, John the Eunuch, ran the country as premier. Michael got sick, locked himself in a room and died refusing to see the lovelorn Zoe. John the Eunuch went on running the country...
...Maharaja of Kapurthala's daughter inlaw, Princess Brinda, preparing to return home, looked back on the winter in Manhattan, submitted a visitor's impression to a New York Post reporter. "New York men and women," said she, "are lovelorn, forlorn, and emotionally torn. The men don't understand their women, and the women don't understand their men." Solution? "I suggest that your husbands and wives sit together silently in meditation for at least one hour...