Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many times together, just like this, his arm around her waist, as attentive as a young husband. They would, when they were alone at Oyster Bay, fix a little lunch and stroll down that path to have a little picnic together in the woods. Now they took their sorrow there. . . ." But he did not leave them there. "The nearest I saw him come to breaking down was, I think, at Columbus. There he had been talking to a large crowd. As he came out of the hall he passed a group of gold-star mothers. . . . They were weeping...
...over the bronze statue of McKinley, standing tall and pensive above the coffins. Every night the bronze McKinley stands there brooding over Canton, which is as ill-favored as growing industrial towns seem fated to be. At night, however, outward ugliness vanishes and the pensive statue seems to express sorrow over the internal, unseen uglinesses of human society . . . the ugly crazy twist in the mind of McKinley's assassin, Leon Czolgosz . . . the ugly, crazy twists in the minds of gunmen from many a Midland city, for whom Canton has long been a safe rat-nest between shootings . . . the stunted...
...promised to disband. Solemnly, regretfully, the "grip" (private type of handshake) had been given a last time all around. A last time they had whispered their passwords and unguessable secrets. Then, like brave men, they had declared their fraternizing formally at an end and gone their ways in sorrow. They had thought the matter was closed but last week the school board met and voted their suspension...
...There is nothing at Carnegie Tech that can be called drunkenness. . . . Like Hamlet, I have shot my arrow o'er the house and hurt my brother. . . . All the statements attributed to me which reflect upon our student body, I withdraw. ... I express to you, one and all, my deep sorrow. . . ." He went on to say that he had been caught completely off his guard by a question from Senator Reed at the hearing, had spoken in the heat of an excited moment...
...While she posed for him, Mr. Orr offered her no candy of any kind. The result is the simulacrum of immortal sorrow of the British War Mothers...