Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newshawks of Milan were busy assembling the final grisly details of the bomb-butchery. A small boy had been beheaded by a flying segment of the fatal lamp post. A young woman's leg had been cut off. An old woman had died, although unhurt, simply of fright. Saddest of all was the tragedy of a father who had learned that his wife and five children were so gravely injured that Death might be expected to lay a cold hand upon all of them within a few hours. Maddened with grief, the poor man butted his head against...
...before ten final absurd years had burned up in a bright sputter for the end of a smoldering century, Thomas Hardy had written Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the most famous of all his fine, austere, tempestuous novels. Four years later he had written Jude the Obscure, the saddest, the last...
...saddest commentary on these proceedings is that there can be little room for denial. Boston is, as Mr. Eaton remarks, "the laughing stock of the country because of its censorship of literature." That it should merit that distinction is rather surprising when its educational institutions are considered. Usually those portions of the country best equipped with colleges and universities are those betraying the most liberal tendencies. In the more provincial areas a certain prudishness about intellectual matters is expected. But in the Commonwealth, whose hoast is its great opportunities for higher education, the opposite is true...
...Saddest Story...
...Ogden Armour's chief cost. In 1923 he was the chief owner of Chicago bank stocks; he had to sell $5,000,000 in stocks to cover a $20,000,000 loan. The receivership of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway has cost him a million. But his saddest loss was the forced sale in 1923 of his Melody Farm, $5,000,000 estate of forests, fountains, lakes, drives and gardens, near the Lake Michigan shore north of Chicago. Truculently honest, weary of commercial strife, he now spends most of his time rusticating in California. Last week however...