Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chile and Peru have both prospered in the past 40 years. Both nations hailed the Hoover solution joyously. Bolivia's sorrow was that she has been cut off from the sea for 46 years and now seems sure to remain...
With joy and sorrow...
...drooped in memory of Le Bourget, Paris, 1927. At sharp noon a bugle shrilled. Fifteen wiry French sailors lifted the coffin, carried it cautiously down the green-carpeted gangplank, through the purple-and-black draped pier to a black caisson drawn by six horses. As if freighted with the sorrow of two nations, the casket became unmanageably heavy. In 30 hands it swayed perilously. Others leaped forward and with much straining helped to hoist it into position on the caisson. Bands took up the doleful beat of a funeral march. Soldiers, sailors and citizens, the cortege moved east through...
...Allen appointment brought great sorrow to Vice-President Curtis, his political foe in Kansas Republicanism. Curtis silence was more eloquent than any chundering Senate speech...
...break into the Senator's smooting: 1) vaudeville; 2) golf; 3) the Washington Zoo. For diversion this stern man went every Friday night to Keith's Theatre to sit in the second row just behind the orchestra leader and gaze over the footlights in unsmiling delight. Great was his sorrow when the theatre closed. His golf came at the age of 63. Now from 6 to 7 a. m. he plays a round on the capital's public links, shooting 110 in straight cautious jabs. At the Washington Zoo Senator Smoot liked to poke around among the birds and animals...