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Word: sor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coming to the U.S. to build a materialist Utopia, the Trappists to build a monastery where they could contemplate God. The last Icarian Utopia, at Cloverdale, Calif., fizzled out in 1895. Today in the U.S., there are six Trappist monasteries where some 500 monks dwell "above the" terrors and sor rows of modern life as well as above its passing satisfactions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men of Silence | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Kilbride, who has appeared in such movies as "The Southerner," "State Fair," and "She Wouldn't Say Yes," will be remembered as the Western Union messenger on the Jack Benny radio program a few years ago who drawled, "Sor-ry, but y'can't have the telegram 'thout signin'...comp'ny reg'lations y'know." He nasalizes similar lines as the psychopathic villain in the slight chiller now filling the Copley Theatre. The down-easter with the Maine twang is, in blunt fact, "Little Brown Jug's" sole claim to a dubious fame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 2/26/1946 | See Source »

...Sirry, sor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 7/16/1943 | See Source »

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