Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris, an investigation was begun into an astonishing message received by M. Fonck four stormy days before the disaster, a message signed by Commandant Weiss of the French Air Force saying "Abolutely start the flight, even if you drop in the ocean." But sorrow predominated over scandal...
...19th hole. Richard Jones, Massachusetts state champion, pressed Robert Tyre Jones hard before succumbing by one hole. M. B. Stevenson played a family match against long-driving young Roland MacKenzie. Long an intimate of the lad's parents, Mr. Stevenson sent Mrs. MacKenzie Sr. a telegram expressing profound sorrow at having been forced to eliminate her son. Francis Ouimet and Charles Evans, both former title holders, came through the early rounds with ease; they might, if Jones relapsed, meet in the finals. Von Elm beat Watts Gunn, 8 and 7, and rollicked to a victory over a Chicago strapper...
...Venerable brethren and beloved children, the Holy Father, through us, makes known to you that your grief is his grief and advises you that with you he also will join in the happiness of triumph and reminds you that, great as your sorrow may be, and if life appears intolerable, you must not become disheartened, for if you are to accompany Jesus Christ in His sorrow you will equally participate in His victories...
...stays to take his medicine. And when Dids goes off to college, Mrs. Bascomb finally focuses on the now pitiful, bedridden Lottie as a new object for the domineering energy and mother-love that was as much the cause as it is the cure of so much sorrow. The Significance. Dorothy Canfield has here achieved a magnificent demonstration of the literary maxim: "An author must be God to his characters." She has first caused, then seen, understood and clearly presented, everything these Bascombs think and feel and do and are. Good and bad characteristics, actions of strength and weakness, conflicting...
Augusto B. Leguia, president of Peru, "bantam Mussolini," addressed to President Calles an appeal: "I view with deep sorrow the religious conflict which is developing in Mexico, that beautiful twin country of Peru. ... I take the liberty of begging Your Excellency to incline your powerful will toward the re-establishment of harmony with the Church...