Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sport-loving people and need entertainment. We have already had a year of war with, unfortunately, visions of more to come. Yet we can only have one World Series each year. It is not unnatural, then, that the injury to McCarthy's arm has caused more sorrow in New York than the partial success of the Germans on the Baltic front, whereas Felsch's home-run has cheered Chicago more than any English victory in Flanders. To a foreigner this may seem to be a dreadful and unpatriotic state of affairs, but we know better. We are living...
...bones and ashes. There were women in that mob in great numbers, singing at the gala day. Women! Those chivalric and holy women of the South to keep whom pure the last Southern gentleman would shed his romantic blood. The flower of chivalry! Did womanly pity, did womanly sorrow, which is the greatest compassion our race may know, move their hearts then? Did they weep at this bestiality...
...death of a man who has lived a long and complete life, fulfilling with honor the task he was set to do, has in it something of climax which robs the inevitable end of much of its sorrow. Yet even such consolation may avail little in considering the death of Joseph H. Choate...
...women and children are left to sorrow over the loss of those who so freely died. Nothing in life may compensate to them for the broken bonds, the shattered family ties, the lost hopes of a more joyous future when this dark war should end. The tragedy of the martyr is condensed in one brief moment of sacrifice: the tragedy of the mourner is ceaseless...
...thousands of miles. England's starvation blockade, which the American Government itself admitted to be "illegal and indefensible," finds its daily victims among the children and the aged behind the fronts. The few letters that reach us and the hundreds that do not reach us, are messengers of sorrow and death. A pathetic picture is thus ever present in the heart of every German-American...