Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...book of verse, In American, and as the husband of Peggy Wood, has herewith written his first play. To assist him he found George Abbott who, with James Gleason, wrote The Fall Guy. Together they have fashioned a homely fable of those who watch the song and sorrow of metropolitan life from the cheap seats. Clerks and poor boardinghouse folk are their characters. Their touch is shrewd and their comedy genuinely entertaining...
...whole people recall at this sad hour her majestic beauty, her venerable silver hair, her untiring charity, her austere composure in sorrow, her fervent love of the fatherland and her exquisite sensitiveness as a queen and woman...
...firemen are used to large heroisms. They climb precipitous buildings like human flies and plow through gallons of smoke, happy if they can manage to stifle therein. So it probably was a poignant sorrow to find embowered in the snowy branches only a tabby with three kittens. Nevertheless, their savior, with statesmanlike good humor handed them gently down. While, for compensation, the Herald manifled the deed by use of simple mathematics. It lauded the firemen for a single-handed rescue of thirty-six lives...
...drawing room where the gay party was being staged and saw his beloved ideal sitting on a table and smoking, he was so shocked that he turned on his heel and left without a word." This incident it appears doomed him to "gloomy bachelorhood" . . . until weighed down with sorrow and loneliness he ultimately committed suicide. It would be ridiculous, were it not that the dead man deserves better at the hands of the living...
...death of my beloved mother is first in my thoughts. It has been a solace to me in my grief to have received from all conditions and classes in all parts of my dominions and from all foreign countries touching assurances of their deep sympathy in my sorrow and expressions of their affectionate regard for one who was enthroned in the love of my people...