Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a rendezvous with life. Far down the beckoning years Are times of peace and times of strife, Of laughter and of tears, Times of sorrow, times of joy, Times when shadows fall. Life seems all gold without alloy Or shrouded with a pall. While you, you're farther down the years. Can you now guide me through the strife? You've known life's pleasures, known its fears, But I've a rendezvous with life...
...Some sorrow may be expressed by devotees when philharmonics, orchestras, radio dramas, and the like are forced off the other; but carpers must remember that a greater good will be served. Who knows, the nation may laugh itself out of the depression, despite a few fatalities among the more weakly constituted who are unable to stand the strain of an eight-hour laughing jag each...
...celebrate today this year with great festivities the reason is the sorrow that we feel in view of the death during the past year of the man [Hindenburg] who two years ago entrusted me and therewith the National Socialist movement with the leadership of Germany. We all contemplate with deep emotion the link that led our movement so symbolically from the past into the future...
...leaves, the young lady learns of his position and gets an unwanted revenge when her newspaper friend prints the story in slightly reversed form, making it appear that the lady has deserted the lord instead of vice-versa. She becomes notorious as the "No Girl" and while drowning her sorrow is persuaded to cash in on her fame by appearing at a night club. She does and her casual manner makes her a sensation. After another crack at the Englishman she returns to the newshawk and popcorn. It's all rather simple, wholesome and amusing--worth the trip across...
Like the cab horse, the absolute monarch and the beehive police helmet, the sailing ship is rapidly fading from human sight. Many a sailor, professional and amateur, is sorry. But that nostalgic sorrow might well be mitigated by such a superb record of the sailing ship's passing as this book of Sailor-Author Villiers...