Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fervor of indignation such as the Latin races alone are capable of displaying. Flags were at half-mast all through the Peninsular ; places of amusement were closed; many shops had posted a notice on their closed doors: "Have closed as a sign of public mourning." Indignation was heightened and sorrow became more profound when it was learned that the murdered Deputy was a poor man and had left a widow and five young children totally unprovided...
...Hero, by Allan Monkhouse, an Englishman, under the beneficent auspices of the Theatre Guild. At least two others are now in preparation. The swagger and tinsel of war in the theatre of eight years ago has been discarded. The majority of these new productions are bitter, ironic dissections of sorrow. Probably none of them will possess the mordant satiric force of Shaw's Arms and the Man. Yet their mission is clear. The young men who have written them have been to war. After five years their protests must be heard...
...Arthur W. Currie, ex-Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Ex- peditionary Force, now Principal of McGill University: "By the World War we gained a truer appreciation and a better realization of war's unspeakable waste, its dreadful hardships, its cruel slaughter and its aftermath of loneliness, sorrow and broken hearts. We now know that as a means of solving the world's problems and removing international discord war is a delusion and a lie. We know that no matter how much a nation may desire to hold itself aloof and to keep apart from the struggle...
...chief element making for change or improvement so far is cheap money, and from present prospects this factor seems unlikely to change for many months. Gold imports still pour into the country, and the banks are more concerned to lend than borrowers are to sorrow. Flotation of new securities las as yet been insufficient to absorb the slack...
...average, he is an excellent showman. The fact that experimentation is costly explains perhaps why until recent years very little departure was ever made from the usual manner of selecting and presenting plays. Even low the public is somewhat apathetic to innovations, as certain English producers discovered to their sorrow. So if the tendency to mediocrity in dramatic performances is to be overcome, the impulse must apparently come from the universities where the future playwrights and producers can experiment without being directly dependant upon popular favor...