Word: sorrower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sorrow. The day of their return to Baltimore, they learned that son Roosey, along with 15 other youths, had been arrested on a charge of taking two girls, ages 13 and 11, on an all night joy ride and keeping them in a furnished flat for a week. He was acquitted of the rape charge, but out of the investigation of this case grew a perjury indictment against 21-year-old Roosey. But Tommy confidently announced his candidacy for governor ten months before the primary...
...passes like every other, leaving him untouched, unchanged, unmoved, like a man asleep. His foster father Jacob, with whom Etienne lives, has spent his time observing life with such quiet detachment that he has "reached his sixtieth year without ever having had a serious illness or an enduring sorrow." Vigorous pioneers built the home of Jacob and Etienne, but in four generations the family has "shrunk to two quiet bachelors...
...your friends how much you enjoyed the play." (Recently Billy Rose, fearing a panning, persuaded the critics to stay away from The Immoralist while he held a week of "paid previews" in Manhattan to get the play in shape.) But in the end. most producers have learned to their sorrow that bucking bad reviews is expensive and fruitless...
...high time the funeral is exposed for what it is: a mercenary means to defraud the duped survivor and invade the sanctity of sorrow...
Farewell to Beasts. "Company allegiance is a fact," writes Father Purcell. In a sample of 202 workers, 187, or 92%, showed more or less "favorable" attitudes toward Swift & Co., a great change since Upton Sinclair wrote in sorrow and anger (in The Jungle, 1906) about the company-hating "human beasts" in the Pack-ingtown jungle. Of the rest, 14 were neutral; only one man's attitude was downright "unfavorable...