Word: sorrier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walls of his Washington office, RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones has two maps of his native Houston. One shows the city with all its Jones buildings. The other shows all the Jones buildings rubbed out. Houston without a Jones building is a sorry sight. Even sorrier would be a U. S. railroad map with all lines supported by Mr. Jones's RFC rubbed out. Total RFC advances to railroads have been $487,000,000, of which some $74,000,000 has been repaid. Last week after a 25-minute conference with Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, New York Central...
...Woman, her stepfather The Atheist, her real father The Bishop, her various lovers, pickups and The Dreamer. Each act is a season and each season has its appropriate song and dance by the folk in the park. As the seasons progress The Young Whore's lot grows sorrier. The Bishop offers her only the cold comfort of a nunnery. The Atheist is unhappily God-obsessed. The Old Woman, lamenting a lost soldier-lover, maunders about placing wreaths on a huge and sombre War memorial. Only The Dreamer, bravely played by curly-headed Bramwell Fletcher, stands up for The Young...
...sorrier sight than a clergyman errant, about to be unfrocked. From his embarrassing plight the pious eye is usually averted, but a congregation in Muncie, Ind. last week found this impossible. As Sunday evening service was about to begin, 50 people sat uneasily in Madison Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Behind the pulpit stood their 55-year-old pastor. Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, tall, spare, grim-faced, with lank grey locks falling over his high forehead and gold teeth glinting between thin lips. That morning Mr. Conway had announced that Willard F. Aurand, the choirmaster, would not be present...
...returns gave Labor 52 seats in the present Parliament, compared to 287 in 1929 and 267 when Parliament adjourned). When beaten Leader Henderson had heard the worst he sighed, "I am sad and sorry." Later he brightened, prophesied: "Before many months have gone the nation will be sadder and sorrier...