Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drinkers Unite" is the motto of Harvard's latest organisation which will hold its first and last meeting on the night of Tuesday, November 3, and which is designed both to celebrate and sorrow at the results of the election...
...member of the faculty is being sought to sponsor the club. Third party members are prohibited from joining the club because they always have to drown their sorrow...
...Immaculate after serving as a War pilot, found himself stationed for home missionary work near Berlin's Tempelhof airport. To obtain a civilian pilot's license tall, blond Rev. Paul Schulte flew surreptitiously until his ecclesiastical superiors discovered it, grounded him. To this disappointment was added deeper sorrow when Father Schulte learned of the fate which had overtaken a fellow Oblate, Rev. Otto Fuhrmann with whom he had been inseparable in the flying corps, in whose company he had entered the priesthood. Father Fuhrmann had died of a tropical disease in Ovamboland, South-West Africa after vainly...
...springboard dive, on his 40th birthday Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was found in an Asheville, N. C. resort hotel by the New York Post. Jittery and moody, he moped about his hotelroom, rambled to his interviewer between drinks: "One is not waiting for the fadeout of a single sorrow, but rather being an unwilling witness of an execution, the disintegration of one's own Personality. . . . I lost my grip." Asked what he thought about the neurotics of the '20's whom he pictures in This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Author Fitzgerald moaned: "Why should...
...insists upon wearing "widow's weeds" although her husband is alive. What Spaniards call a "Passion Flower" is an exceedingly fragile plant which shrivels at a touch. Old friends say that after she and her husband left each other to struggle separately for Communism her air of "quiet sorrow" at this estrangement earned her the nickname of the Passion Flower...