Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the Waldorf-Astoria roof. They were all playing tag football when the wife stepped back for a long drop. And do you know that flagstaff in the square below? Well, the kiddies fell on the ball. Now, now, don't take it so hard, old man. Yours in sorrow...
...Carre, to the music of Andre Wormser. Through three acts which deal with the fragile adventures of poor Pierrot who runs away with one Phrynette, returns home in tears, no player speaks a word. Miss Taylor's face is a painted mask of eternal, baffled laughter, of moon-blanched sorrow; her gestures are eloquent, her insight unfailing. George Copeland, famed pianist, upholds the glittering pattern of gesture with subtle rhythms...
...STEPCHILDREN-Sarah Gertrude Millin-Boni, Liveright ($2.00). The literature of miscegenation, as written by whites, insists that bearers of black blood are inevitably bearers of sorrow and shame. Here a black-brown-yellow sequence is put in motion -'amid veld, Boers, oxen and other carefully-selected South African atmosphere-by a gaunt, buck-toothed missionary to the Hottentots. His act is a kind of sexual piety. His seed, of whom Mrs. Millin tells with Old Testament-like baldness, power and monotony, continue ashamed until an octoroon of the fourth generation "passes over"-that is, becomes white enough...
...their sorrow...
...Boylston Professor, and Professor Moore will try to fill his shoes as dean of deans; yet every undergraduate who has ever talked with him will know that the spirit of Dean Briggs will not leave the yard Students who were informed of the news last night expressed sorrow that the "dearest old man" ever known should be forced to resign...