Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill. Then around the block. At half past nine, "Die Wacht am Rhein." Another bill, another glass. Upstairs, with his feet on a rocking chair, Herr Ehret paid no heed to his butler's complaints. Sometimes, if no band came, he played to himself on the flageolet, a sad and wandering air. Then to bed. He had bought real estate with his money-Manhattan real estate was good, and at one time he owned more than anyone except John Jacob Astor-but he never raised a rent or put a tenant out for not paying the rent. When...
...Lady of sadness, Death came to her in a white wintry robe. Eight young officers bore her coffin to the royal crypt in the Laeken Cháteau, near Brussels. Albert, King of the Belgians, and the Royal Family paced behind it slowly to the sad measures of Chopin...
...sad thing that this unpleasant childish quarrel between Harvard and Princeton has not been allowed to cease. While official parties are not directly responsible for this newest utterance, it does show that they should exercise better supervision and keep such articles from print. From the outside, it seems that Princeton is being made he "goat" at the expense of Harvard. If there is a bit of truth in these clams, for the sake of decency, let it come out through the proper official spokesmen and thus settle the matter once and for all while it is fresh in the mind...
...announcement, some months ago, of the opening of the movie theatre in the Square was greeted with high hopes by those who usually go to Boston for the purpose of killing an evening. It is a sad fact that these hopes have not been entirely realized. With few exceptions the pictures at the new theatre have been dull--in fact, terrible...
...from inherited syphilis. As a play it is remarkable less for its profundity than for the technical mastery with which it swells through a gorgeous crescendo to a thunderclap climax. Interpretation of the Mrs. Alving's role by Minnie Maddern Fiske, 61, is different. What is usually a sad, ironical figure, she turns into a deftly satirical one. Though affording Mrs. Fiske's admirers an opportunity to exclaim once again over her genius for discovering comedy in almost any kind of situation, it failed to accord with the sombre mood of a drama of doom. Theodore St. John...