Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press of America-every publisher, editor and reporter, must be put on the water wagon. I have a high respect for these men and their mission, and I speak not in bitterness but in sorrow. If the newspapers of this country were all on the water wagon we would be grandly on our way to accomplish our goal...
YOUNG WOODLEY-Glenn Hunter participating in a story of sex and sorrow in an English boarding school...
...succes sors of John Marshall, and having months ago perused with interest your articles concerning Mr. Justice McKenna's retirement and the elevation of Mr. Justice Stone to the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I have just read with an amazement not unmingled with sorrow the advertisement of TIME itself on Page 33 of your issue...
Surely the sadness of this heart panting after the waterbrooks of learning in the arid spaces of university life demands pity. To think that such sorrow can be held within one professorial form! Yet perhaps the doctor will soon have found his peace. The heart beneath the surface of some peon bodice may beat for the professor's learning. Some ruffian of the plains may seek wisdom at his fount. How fortunate he is to be removed from the mundane midst of American mediocrity. Now he can enjoy perfect English among virile types in a violent land. Then, when another...
...right to his opinions. I have met him in joint debate and replied to the false propaganda which fills his new play. His mistaken sincerity is unquestioned. But Mr. Thomas looks on America today with jaundiced eyes. He has forgotten the elemental themes of love, ambition and sorrow which make the world laugh and weep, and turned soap box orator for the outlawed brewer and distiller. It's a pity. The reputation of Playwright Thomas and that part of the American theater involved in propaganda which encourages lawlessness will both suffer...