Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aftermath. The national sorrow exceeded all ordinary bounds. Black flags were unfurled spontaneously everywhere. King Alexander came and stood as though dazed at the bedside of his dead counselor. Tears streamed from His Majesty's eyes. When he finally left the room he returned a moment later to clasp the dead statesman's hand...
...Harvard College. His ideas were known to be very advanced and the Board of Overseers at first rejected his election, subsequently consenting to it by divided vote. He says, "I had not taken much interest in the discussion over me and was content to find relief from the sorrow at home in strenuous labor at the Institute of Technology. When, however, my election as president had been completed--unexpectedly to me--I turned at once to the functions of the President and the needs of Harvard University, and in a few weeks had become absorbed in the new duties...
...even remember, they broke through the police lines to clasp my hand and tell me of their affection. It is them that I love and to them that I shall someday return. ... I cannot look into the future, and enough unto the day is the joy or the sorrow thereof...
...figure of the past remains- Louisa May Alcott (1832-88). Yearly her books are issued; this autumn, in five editions.† Her upright heroines still curtsey at balls, have jolly sledding parties, converse soberly on morals, dismiss wayward suitors, love their families before themselves, suffer sorrow in pious silence...
...superman would be a thing of wonder even if he lived in Kamschatka. The Tully superman in Hollywood would stagger the Prophet. It is one of the coarsest stories since Rabelais but too terribly vivid, dramatic and shrewdly intense to be vulgar, save as Jarnegan was vulgar, to his sorrow...