Word: sorrower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while from his idee fixe, and he rants and mourns like a character out of Dumas fils. There is some talk about his ordering the errant one out of his house, and then a while later he observes lugubriously, "You have just given me the greatest sorrow of my life." Of course the daughter has not selected just anybody to perform the act of darkness with, and we are treated to the unveiling of the structure of interlocking copulations which is usual in second-rate French drama. We also get a good helping of the sort of dialogue that...
...public eye, Arkansas' John L. (for Little) McClellan is a cold-eyed, stone-voiced, racket-busting U.S. Senator. But his few close friends know him for a sensitive, compassionate man who keeps his feelings hidden deep because they have been so sorely tested by sorrow. McClellan's mother died bearing him; his first wife died after they were unhappily divorced; his second wife died in 1935 of spinal meningitis. Son Max, by the first marriage, also died of meningitis while serving with the Army in North Africa in 1943. And in 1949, three days after Max was reburied...
...last week a four-column ad in the newspaper El Comercio called on Lima's Catholic women to congregate at Santa Rosa Church, a few blocks from the presidential palace, "as an expression of sorrow and regret before our Holy Father Pius XII in this hour of trial to our faith that has sent a shudder through the hearts of Peru's Catholics. We will pray for our church, for the sanctity of matrimony." Five thousand women-many from Lima's top society-heeded the call, parading past the presidential palace and the cathedral and chanting hymns...
They seem to share a capacity not only for poking fun at folly but also for turning passing sorrow inside out. Standing in for Sullivan, Wayne and Shuster skittered nimbly through a confused-identity routine, belted out a metrically sound skit about a Shakespearean baseball team. Shrilled Catcher Wayne to a myopic umpire: "So fair a foul I have not seen. Accursed knave with heart as black as coat you wear upon your back! Now, for the bum thou art, stand'st thou revealed! Thy head is emptier than Ebbets Field...
...that case, those who. through party considerations incomprehensible to me, shall have prevented me from pulling the nation once again from its difficulties while there was still time, will bear a heavy responsibility. As for me, there would be nothing left for me but to withdraw into my sorrow until my death...