Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Jan. 16 edition of TIME, on p. 10 you state that the Smith girls-quite out of keeping with the general feeling of sorrow for the death of the late Mr. Coolidge were attending the movies on the night of his death, while the rest of Northampton was in deep mourning. We regret your attitude in speaking of the Smith girls as being capable of disregarding completely the death of such an honored man. . . . College did not officially open until the next day, Friday, Jan. 6, and practically none of the student body had yet returned from vacation...
Many a Catholic, says Father McCaffrey, is ignorant as to the church's teaching on the sacrament of Penance, which requires genuine sorrow rooted in an "intellectual appreciation" of sin and a firm purpose of amendment as well as simple confession. Many a non-Catholic misunderstands Penance, too; Catholics go to prison because they believe confession excuses their crimes and ends the matter. Not cited in Father McCaffrey's article is the fact that Catholics in prison are more publicized than non-Catholics because their priests do something about them. Nobody hears about the religious views...
...understand Shakespeare's writing in Hamlet 'There is something rotten in the state of Denmark!' ... I want to express sorrow and anger at this event...
...important thing to be gained from this period of sorrow and want is the recognition of the importance of local government, and that the best way to reduce the taxes is to have good government in cities and counties of this country," continued Mr. Seasongood. "It is the most important branch of government, although not generally thought of as such. The best remedy for the ills is a realization on the part of the people that it is extremely costly to have poor local government, and tax money amounting to many million dollars can be saved by good, efficient local...
...gloomy inventory of sin and sorrow awaited the attention of the United Lutheran Church in America as it met last week in Philadelphia for its eighth biennial convention. The Church, said its Committee on Moral & Social Welfare, should address itself to the following conditions: "racketeering, gambling, exploitations, bribery, profanity, dissipation, diseases, suicide, sex laxity, lawlessness; organized agencies within society which have in large sections been perverted; infidelity between husbands and wives, disloyalty between parents and children, undisciplined temperaments; racial prejudices: jealousies, greed, grudges between nationalities; the wrong attitude of class toward class in society; great wealth and luxury and abject...