Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jack Mylong Muenz, Yiddish Clark Gable of pre-Nazi Germany, leading man in one of Greta Garbo's first starring films (UFA's Streets of Sorrow), lately guide in the New York World's Fair Palestine Pavilion, sought passage to Palestine where he will join the Jewish Legion. An eye-witness to Hitler's 1923 beer-hall Putsch, Actor Muenz gibed: "I was in the street when the machine guns began to fire. Immediately Hitler was down on his face. His General, Franz Ritter von Epp, got disgusted and shouted: 'What's the matter...
...Nothing can be less wise than to allow those hours of darkness to become hours of inactive gloom. The temptation to do this presses heavily on those whose occupations end with daylight and on those multitudes of elderly folk whose chief sorrow now is that age debars them from public service. . . . Lenitives are available and among the best of them is wisely chosen reading and rereading. . . . Some readers will find an inexhaustible solace in Sir Walter Scott; others will feel that Thackeray has for too long gathered dust upon their shelves. ... In the months to come many old favorites...
...four continents of the world there was bitter sorrow last week over War. But in the fifth, the carrot-shaped continent, there was frank rejoicing...
Yours, more in sorrow than in anger...
...Thetis, a sea nymph, was the mother of Achilles. * Ironically, while the British press fumed, the German press soft-pedaled criticism, offered condolences. Said the usually inflamed Volkischer Beobachter: "Events such as these unite the world above all political differences in a common hope and a common sorrow. Today we extend our warmest sympathy...