Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rumored the richest Spaniard, certainly one of the saddest, is old Count de Romanones. He arranged the flight of Alfonso XIII (TIME, April 27). He put Queen Victoria Eugenie, the ailing Crown Prince and the rest of the Spanish Royal Family on a train at Madrid and said the last goodbye. As their glory and his reflected glory faded, the Count sat stunned by his emotions on a railway station bench. Last week Count de Romanones rose courageously in the Socialist and savagely antiMonarchist National Assembly. For perhaps the last time Monarchist de Romanones defended with all his forensic skill...
...MEADOW OF DREAMS No Man's Land lies before me, That once was a Meadow Where fairies foregathered And Elfs made their play; 'Tis the saddest, most desolate Hell of a Meadow From Dante's Inferno, Since Huns had their...
...desires good, but He also permits evil, and our saddest thought is that it is our own sons who work evil against other good sons who are dear...
...pipes in dulcet tones Manhattan's newest sweet singer, Ogden Nash. You will look in vain among these Hard Lines for one that tells of saddest thought; Poet Nash is cheerfully up-to-date. A determined rhymester, he bends words to his will...
Just 100 years ago last week was born that saddest of monarchs, Franz Josef I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary. He reigned 68 years. When he mounted the throne Austria was one of the greatest, most powerful countries in the world. When he left it Austria was on the verge of ruin. His brother was executed, his wife and his nephew were assassinated, his only son had committed suicide. Said Emperor Franz in 1866 to the citizens of Frankfort: "I have an unlucky hand...