Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have had time to judge and to regret the effects of our splendid isolation. The triumph of our arms no longer blinds us to the defeat of our purposes. The joy of our return from war has faded in the sorrow of the unfinished task that still remains. Our chosen leaders have recognized our obligations to the world in the Washington Conference and in the recommendation that the United States should adhere to the Permanent Court of International Justice. Such public action, however, supplemented as it is by private enterprise, is too limited to be adequate as our full share...
Twenty years later he turns up under the most unfavorable circumstances in the buvette which she owns at Le Havre. In the crisis (a man has been murdered), he proves himself a gentleman and departs to America to forge a fortune. Thus is her life of sorrow justified...
...sons in the War in both the American and German armies, and underwent the agonies of such a sardonic situation. ''They might be killing each other," she would say, with a sudden look of sorrow on her merry face. One son went to horrible doom in a sunken German submarine. These emotional pangs have bred in her a great pity and tenderness for soldiers of all races. It is this which has made her devote herself to the American Legion, for whose benefit she sings constantly...
...with regret that our Allies saw us go. When we hauled down the last flag in the territory of the Rhine, they, and I mean by they those in authority at the ceremony from France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Germany, gave evidence of deep sorrow...
...Forrester's death. Then (he had been her balance wheel), inscrutably weak as she was inscrutably strong, she lost poise -let her charm stoop pitifully to attract such men as the hard, sly, bumptious Ivy Peters. She passed out of Niel's life, leaving him full of sorrow and anger that so inimitable a creature should come to such base uses. Later he heard she had married again-a rich, cranky old Englishman, who lived in South America -and in that marriage recovered for a few years before she died a little of the luxury and spaciousness that...