Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...weep their sorrow or do they mourn my grief...
...hardly look forward toward such a holy night for warring mankind without the secret fear that unholy struggle may soon disrupt the peoples of the globe again, and that the new peace may be merely a truce. The hateful thoughts which have grown in these years of sorrow are so abundant that they will last and ruin the peace to come; the nations, it seems, will make true harmony impossible for generations...
...arrival of crowds in holiday spirits. We like to be good hosts to you who are our guests,--indeed, in recent years, like truly good hosts, we have even been accustomed to feel extremely downcast at the time of your departure. Sometimes we feel that this discomfiture and sorrow of ours might be called carrying hospitality...
...every scholastic year necessarily presents to the undergraduates changes and vacancies in the personnel of the faculty. The recent death of Professor Josiah Royce of the Philosophy Department has created a vacancy which, unlike some, it will be impossible to fill. It is with a feeling of intense sorrow that both professors and students mourn the loss of a scholar whose mind was so constructive, so keen in the search for philosophic and religious truths. During his twenty-four years as a member of the Philosophy Department Professor Royce's idealistic theories gained world-wide fame, particularly for their tolerance...
...requiring rare talent to keep from over-acting. Mr. O. P. Heggie, seen here last as Androcles, excelled as Cokeson in a part which was rather too long drawn out to be highly effective. Miss Nesbitt played the woman, Ruth Honeywill, with just the right touch of sweetness and sorrow...