Word: sorrowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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None But the Lonely Heart (RKO-Radio), a story about the bewilderment, hope and sorrow of people in the slums of London's 1930s, is in many respects a most unusual picture...
...father. But when he put in an insurance claim for $400 worth of jewelry which investigators found hidden away in a safety-deposit vault. Courtney Rogers suddenly aroused the interest of the police. Questioned, he calmly announced: "I started the fire that killed my father. . . . His drinking brought sorrow to my mother." After two more days of questioning, he smoothed his red hair and added: "I might as well tell you the whole story." He had killed his mother too. Said Courtney Rogers: "I had an Oedipus complex." No one was much surprised when he confessed that he had given...
...have just read ... of Wendell Willkie's death, and I feel a deep sorrow because a great hope has died with him. You have a Roosevelt and a Dewey and will have one of them as your next President. Both are politicians; both are shrewd. But we, the men of all nations, had a Willkie and we have lost him. He was not shrewd, but he was sincere. Perhaps he was a poor politician . . . but he was something very much more than that...
...shock; if there had been a seismograph to measure such things, it would have recorded that the shock was felt by human beings clear around the world. All over the U.S. the people said the same things to each other: simple words of half-angry disbelief, of loss, of sorrow. That was a man, said the people...
Caparisoned in a neat, double-breasted suit and alert amiability, Sidney Hillman acted as if he were just sitting down with the investigators to talk things over. It was more in sorrow than in anger that he reminded the Congressmen that his P.A.C. had already been officially investigated three times (twice by the FBI, once by a Senate campaign expenditures committee). He deeply resented the Communist label: "You're trying to prejudice the public against us. You're hitting below the belt!" But he welcomed this opportunity to help scotch the "fantastic stories" about P.A.C.'s huge...