Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unpretentious New England living room Mr. Coolidge, pale, and silent, read the telegrams telling of President Harding's death. Then he slowly dictated a statement expressing his sorrow, and his intention of carrying out the policies of his predecessor, and also a telegram of condolence and sympathy to Mrs. Harding, signed "Calvin Coolidge; Grace Coolidge...
...openly disapproved of the second and did not attend it. The second Mrs. Harrison bore her husband one daughter. Since his death (March 13, 1901) she has lived very quietly. Last week she telegraphed Mrs. Harding : "Deepest sympathy to you from one who has had a similar anxiety and sorrow. This is a grief to the whole country...
...applause at performances and of the complimentary columns in the newspapers. When a tenor sings with her and gets more acclaim than she does or as much, she looks around for a new tenor. The ambitious fellows with their press agents and claques have presently discovered to their sorrow that the hand clappings and press articles which they have manufactured for themselves, instead of impressing Melba favorably and inspiring her to take them around with her to high functions, have made her seek for other tenors with less enchantment for the public...
Mussolini telegraphed the Prefect of Pisa to apologize to Cardinal Main for "the foolish violence against Catholic clubs, and express to him my profound sorrow...
Professor Perry then showed how today we believe our civilization is insecure for we have doubts about ourselves, and our accomplishments, but he added that we could have no doubts about the accomplishments and sacrifices of the dead. The unfortunate part is that sorrow must remain. "We remember how we said good luck when we could not say goodbye". He then showed how there could be no help for sorrow in words but only in the thought expressed by words. At the news of Lincoln's death a wave of sorrow went over the country but those who felt...