Word: sadden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States. Destroy that, and you have, by violating the most cherished sentiment of millions, erected an enduring and inseparable barrier to the achievement of a free Indian nationhood! "I can feel no doubt that this demand for independence must do an irreparable injury to India's cause, and sadden the hearts of the wiser of India's sons and friends...
...Roman Catholic Diocese of Newark, N. J., the priests in the city parishes of that diocese gave up their automobiles. Parishioners gasped. Was it to humiliate the holy fathers that Bishop O'Connor had done this thing? Did he want to make fat priests lean, and sadden lean ones by . packing them into streetcars ? "Fishers of men" ... how could they be fishers if they were bundled, like sardines, in busses, elevated railways? Or perhaps, thought parishioners, Bishop O'Connor in-tended his edict as a rebuke, perhaps the fathers had been over-zealous in their ministrations...