Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast. Freddie is an unusually talented actor and performs his part, which is sweet and sickly anyway, creditably. You wince every time he calls his mother "Dearest," however, and only in several happy scenes where the old Lord figures are you relieved from monotonous and nerve-racking demonstrations of sorrow. The straight story in "Little Lord Fauntleroy," as a matter of fact, is strongly reminiscent of the burlesque melodrama in "The Music Goes Round." As Lionel Stander that prince of hard-boiled funny guys remarks about the latter. "If don't miss an emotion...
...where the black coach of sorrow has taken...
...vote on whether the occasion of April 22 is to be called a "strike" or not might well have been referred to the total membership as the question of national affiliation was. The majority vote for "strike" causes some measure of sorrow. If the college approves, against what is the so-called strike directed? Another full-blooded word seems to be loosing its vitality through corruption of meaning, in a manner reminiscent of once expressive adjectives appropriated by the film industry...
...later years Beethoven referred to Fidelia as "the one of all my children that cost me the worst birth-pangs, the one that brought me the greatest sorrow, and for that very reason the one most dear to me." Records show that for Leonore's big aria, Komm Hoffnung, he tried 18 different attacks, ten for his concluding chorus. He wrote four overtures be fore he was satisfied, each seething with symphonic ideas. Handicaps were his lack of theatre technique, his stormy impatience with what seemed to be intrigue. In a revised version the opera had a more promising...
Eager to oblige, Vermont Marble Co. recently issued a booklet of ready-made epitaphs, subdivided under such subjects as DEITY, CONSOLATION, LOVE, REST, INSPIRATION and SORROW and mostly quoted from Scripture or familiar poetry. Recommended...