Word: sore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many years still thinks I be one of the maintenance department; and thence into the main corridor which so early in the morning is colored in many stained lights; and beautiful it is! Whereupon, no sooner out the door I was much surprised to meet Mr. Durant and was sore at my heart lest he come for the rent; but no, he did come only to see how the workman progressed...
...30th. Very sore at my heart this morning for some scoundrel did ring me at five saying: "Good morning, Sir. Early Rising Bureau calling. Hope you did sleep well. Good morning, Sir!" And this would continue every quarter hour until chimes went six. Whereupon, sleep from me, I did complete a hasty toilet and thence to review some notings in economics. But soon my eyes did turn to two little sparrows on the window-sill, frequent visitors, who did fight most unlady-like over a crust of bread. And I thought to myself: "Stupid creatures. Know ye not economics: Divide...
Thence, goodby to the little bird beside me; and I backstage to see Mr. Hampden, who, having a massage did ask me wait. So, I to talking to a pretty one and did comment on her performance but was sore at my heart when she did inform me she was not "in the performance." Whereupon we both did laugh...
...Windsor the Duke of York was dropped with the Duchess, who was ill with influenza, and Edward of Wales drove on through gathering fog and dusk to Buckingham Palace where the Duke of Gloucester was sitting up with a sore throat. The two brothers spoke briefly. It would have been traditional had the Prince of Wales officially summoned the Prime Minister to come...
...Senator Norris was almost alone in his interpretation of why the U. S. went to war. By 1936 a vast army of people and politicians, still sick and sore with the memory of what their country had gone through, were ready to agree with him. In a time of national enthusiasm for peace and neutrality, any stumpster could cry that the U. S. went to war "to save the skins of its bankers." The opportunity to accuse munitions makers and international bankers of having shoved the U. S. into a foreign war for their own selfish interests was too good...