Word: sadder
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...John Harvard; a young girl took his picture this morning remarking about his youth. And the happy Sophomores as they enter the Houses have always stirred the Vagabond's heart. Well he remembers the day when he wished for the warmth of a Dunster suite; but his heart was sadder and younger then...
...Paris, H. R. H. turned up in St. James's Palace, told the 550 Mayors that, "In common with you all, I am concerned for boys and girls after they have left school, during the difficult time up to the age of 18. . . . There is no sadder sight in the world than aimless, dispirited youth...
...were affinities, the girl chums that they were Lesbians, the lovers that they were mismated. Seduced by a pretty Spanish girl, John decided to stay and listen to the nightingales. The strike over, the arresting semicolon lifted, the travellers went on, to finish their sentences in a new direction. Sadder and supposedly wiser, Julian and the jilted bride bore each other company to Corunna, brave but bereft. The Author looks like a British Richard Halliburton. An Oxonian, he once distinguished himself at rowing by upsetting the entire eight because he had stopped to look at a kingfisher...
...years ago the Colombian Navy splashed into the news by racing 5,000 mi. around South America and up the Amazon River to the scene of a potential war with Peru. Peru has a sad navy: two old cruisers, three destroyers, four submarines. Colombia has one even sadder: six little gunboats, the biggest under 700 tons, and some coast guard patrol boats.* Luckily the League of Nations settled the "war" in Colombia's favor, but the worried Colombians have lately been picking up bargains in second-hand war boats. Thus a U. S. steamer named the Commercial Traveler...
...Trix, who had cometted to London as a musicomedy star, went home and contented herself with a soberer Harry. Speculator Samuel took to pushing a cart, selling hot potatoes. Houghtons were sold up, moved away. As Author Hodson brings down a slow curtain on his characters, he leaves them sadder in some ways, wiser in most...