Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they wrote last week-the editors of UnitÀ Cattolica, daily newspaper of Florence, Italy: "We saw one day in the streets of Florence a woman of the aristocracy dressed with the most rigid economy, who wore on her naked breast a gold cross. The symbol of sacrifice and sorrow joined with the crudest form of mundanity; the emblem of redemption resting on perfumed flesh; the blessed, mortal bed of Christ put in contrast with an instrument of the most lascivious seduction...
Streets of Sorrow. Here is a German film, about which, in the interests of international good will, the less said the better. The locale is Vienna; time, post-War period; heroine, a daughter of the poor but honest; villain, a son of the rich but rancid. Result: booby, bosh and hokum. Fast and Furious (Reginald Denny). If a young man has had an arm broken, a skull cracked, a spine dislocated in an automobile accident and happens, therefore, to be so panicky that the mere squawk of a klaxon sends him scurrying up a tree, could anything at all ever...
...being, it passes somewhat beyond the commonplace. If too narrowly romantic, it does not, however satisfy frivolous readers by running too quickly to its conclusion or, indeed, by running at all to the wished-for conclusion. It was conceived grayly and exploits, not the romance of joy, but of sorrow. Its heroine, Ethleen, oddly named, daughter of a mystically minded mother, herself a roamer of the marshes, outlived her husband and her lover to settle down, at last, in serene resignation as mistress of the old farm. Her character is the one real character in the book and, whether...
...century-grace and sprightliness; his-still successful-son is of Victorian solidity, not without a note of religious and general hypocrisy. The third generation consists of one sister of energetic, lively character, and of two brothers; one an entirely useless person, given to a frivolous life much to the sorrow of his parents, and yet-poor Christian-a good companion and a likeable fellow! His elder brother keeps better in line with the family tradition. He brings the name to full splendor by becoming a senator; he erects a new home for the old firm and the family...
...here was my little friend lost in his ice cream and the sight of the revolving fairies, happy, not thinking of sorrow and misfortune and the really important things of life. How he got home and why I shall be glad to include in my next thesis, "Middle Broken English and Who Broke It or the Graduate Students Dream...