Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robinson. At the White House President Roosevelt, still in bed when the news was brought to him, rose on his elbow and dictated: "In the face of a dispensation so swift in its coming and so tragic in the loss it brings to the Nation, we bow in sorrow. A pillar of strength is gone, a soldier has fallen with face to the battle...
With large ads in 14 newspapers the Ladies' Home Journal last week called attention to an article on syphilis in its August issue entitled "We Can End This Sorrow" by Paul de Kruif & Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service. It was Dr. Parran who made the U. S. press syphilis-conscious, brought the subject into open discussion this year in newspapers, magazines and books (TIME, April 6 et seq.). The Journal in its ads harked proudly back to pre-Parran days...
Rhode Island's straw hat drama will be partially provided by the Theatre-by-the-Sea at Matunuck and the Casino Theatre at Newport, where Eric Swift's new play Sweet Sorrow will be on the boards next fortnight...
...part, yes, with a smile and not a sorrow For we shall meet again beyond tomorrow...
Christian, then 41, took his place with a speech in which sorrow and modesty were stolidly blended. "I hope you will show me the same confidence and respect as you gave him," he said. Educated in Copenhagen's Metropolitanskole, he had served an 18-month term as a private in the army, often standing sentry duty on frosty nights outside the palace of his grandfather, Christian IX, who died in 1906. In 1898, the year in which he became Captain of the Royal Guards, the young giant married Alexandrine, Duchess of Mecklenburg. Christian has always been touchy about...