Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Found in 1921: an English Army of Occupation astride Ireland. Fear or sorrow or both oppressed every home, replacing for the time the carefree spirit usually found on the Emerald Isle. The "Informer" pointed up sharply the savagery of the period, and left undone the story of the personal tragedies behind the killings. So splendid and beautiful is Samuel Goldwyn's "Beloved Enemy" that no other picture of the romance in the civil war is likely to be filmed for some time to come...
Opera singers have a way of marrying wealthy husbands. Though Ganna Walska married four, she never persuaded a large public that she could sing. When, on the other hand, Mrs. Clarence Mackay sings in public, it is no occasion for sorrow. Though handsome Mrs. Mackay's voice has faded since she ceased being Anna Case, she still uses it with the intelligence that won her honors at the Metropolitan Opera. Last week in Chicago another wealthy woman sang three concerts so brilliantly that she brought her audiences to their feet cheering...
...kind of battle whose outcome would indicate eventual success or failure for his whole crusade. Labor Cancer, Imbued as a boy with the doctrines of a union printer in his father's shop, Thomas Dewey professes himself a true friend of Organized Labor. As such, he views with sorrow and anger the growth of the labor union as the prime tool of industrial racketeers. The technique of industrial racketeering, he has discovered, is simple, standardized. A racketeer gets control of a union, or a union leader turns racketeer. In such highly-organized industries as New York City...
...country-squire Bennet, and one of three sisters, nearly pines to death over a lost love in a manner that highly smacks of "days of old and knights of yore. In marked contrast the modern girl would never permit so much as a frown to belie the sorrow and chagrin within her. Sister Elizabeth, as played by Muriel Kirkland, is a far more sensible and sophisticated young woman. She, together with her rattle-brained, match-designing mather and the bloated Lady Catherine de Bourgh, are perhaps the only female characters noticeably touched by the Renaissance of Women, characters whom...
...best current writers of tearjerkers, the top director of tearjerkers, the screen's No. i tragedienne and the industry's current male box-office sensation. The result, against the lush background of Art Director Cedric Gibbons' notion of 19th Century Paris, equipped with generous measures of sorrow, pictorial beauty, charm, plot, glamour and audience appeal, amounts to a Camillennium...