Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outlaws' pact: " 'One hundred and eight of us, each face differing from the other, yet each face noble in its way; one hundred and eight of us, each with his separate heart, yet each heart pure as a star; in joy we shall be one, in sorrow-one; our hour of birth was not one. but we will die together.'... On that day did they all mingle blood with wine and drink it and when they had drunk themselves to mighty drunkenness, they parted...
...sentimental bully, Spencer Tracy; busy, smug, clean-toothed Colleen Moore; wickedly beauteous Helen Vinson; the caddish son Clifford Jones. Like Producer Lasky, Colleen Moore was making a comeback too, hers after a four-year absence from films. She and Spencer Tracy, their emotions confined largely to work and sorrow, gave performances rated by Manhattan critics as "inspired." Before last week's premiere at Manhattan's Gaiety Theatre Miss Moore primly unveiled a bronze plaque marking the scene of "the first public presentation of ... the first motion picture in which narratage was used as a method of telling...
...English) army, but because ship after ship spilled its soggy treasure on the Blasket shore. Sometimes there were corpses. Once a bloated officer from the Lusitania. After the War the day came when sorrow was on the island. The fishing was gone under foot. More and more wakes were held for the young people going off to America, and the old ones wondered who would be left to bury them. Maurice went to Dublin, joined the Civic Guard...
...Vagabond, knowing fellow, has realized that the Charles is not a clean river, or a large river, or a river at all, but he remains attached to it remembering how, although it would deny everything, it has worked sorrow and pleasure. In the fall when Cambridge twilight's are a smoky blue, white-shirted harriers jog along the winding course to Watertwon and back, while men in shells pump up and down like regulated pistons. When Dartmouth comes to town, girls in bright colors walk over the bridge, heels clicking on the walk like little hammers. When there is something...
...covers are performing their respective tasks to my unlimited satisfaction and I am confident Bushman and Bloodhound are doing the best they know, each according to his light. As to the writer of the letter, John Limond Hart, it is merely that I challenge his judgment, and, then, in sorrow. I do not contest his qualifications to present any of the refinements, the mysteries of life-art, archaeology, technocracy, zoology, psychology, thyroid condition, longevity-because he has reached that age when, to the normal American male youth, adolescence goes definitely over the top with a bang, when all knowledge either...