Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Conductor Stokowski has lamented as follows: "It is a great sorrow to me that this dispute has taken place. I certainly don't want anything to happen to my orchestra. I don't want to leave Philadelphia and I'm very fond of my orchestra. Then, too, I wanted to take it abroad. The French Government has invited me to conduct it in Paris, but I can't make arrangements with this dispute going
Lord Curzon: "And he has got through. Well, so much the better. He has survived, to my political sorrow, but artistic delight...
...minister's interests" he continued are as broad as humanity; every day he meets new problems; every day he deals with men and women, who are in difficulty or in sorrow, or who need a helping hand to lift them out of life's temptations. And each time he gets a new slant on life and on his fellowmen; each time his sympathy and interest in mankind is rekindled and revivified...
...succeeded so subtly in combining real sentiment with the vernacular. His poems in slang have been at once beautiful, tender, well written. He has intuitive knowledge of the boy and girl of shop and street, their trials, their loves. If his play possesses the same quality of joy and sorrow that is shown in his poetry, it should run forever, and even if he forgets the popular accents of New York on the sands of Palm Beach, he cannot lose there his wistful, shy boys and girls who drift through his pages...
...high yellow make-up and exotic attire. His peregrinations lead him to the threshold of a home heavy with failure. The father is a lawyer with no clamor of clients at his doorstep; the daughter, an authoress of many manuscripts but no publisher; the mother, steeped in sorrow for a buried brother; the son, an inventor with more gadgets than greenbacks...