Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...still with me, and when one day I learned that by selling a certain amount of soap, I could earn a small press, I knew that at last the way was open. Within a few hours I had orders for the soap, which amounted to $14, but to my sorrow, it was necessary to delay sending the order several weeks. My folks, however, squeezed this amount from the family income and permitted to send the money with the order. The printing outfit proved to be substantial and with it I managed to earn considerable cash, printing tickets and cards...
...same galleries, he exhibited a statue called The Risen Christ. A well-known British cleric exclaimed: "I call it positively wicked and insulting to perpetrate such a travesty." Said Mr. Epstein: "The figure I have produced appeals to me as one of infinite pity, looking upon the world of sorrow with deep compassion." It had a pug nose, pigeon toes, thick lips...
...took her to wife in a cottage fronting the golden fields, walled by the knightly cliffs, of Brittany. Incredible happiness kindled his life until she died in childbirth and he returned to England to lay the ghost of his new grief with the kindliness of an old, companionable sorrow...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS?Eugene O'Neill's statue of sorrow carved from the granite natures of hidden New England farmlands...
...only a year ago, after the death of a little daughter, that people began to understand the mystic whose "life is hid with Christ in God." Sorrow drove him to write out the heart of his religion in a book of devotion: "Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts. Hope thou...