Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfunctory or a pretentious sentence. If it had a smell it would be leaf smoke on an Illinois dirt road in November. Closely-knit to the material, it has almost none of the lyric blurring of The Prairie Years (where he wrote of Nancy Hanks as "sad with sorrow like dark stars in blue mist"). Because Sandburg has been compared often to Walt Whitman, his mature portrait of Walt is instructive: "Undersized, with graying whiskers, Quaker-blooded, softhearted, sentimental, a little crazy, this Walt Whitman sang to the war years, 'Rise O days, from your fathomless deeps...
...this night when the terrible news of such a cataclysm reaches us will be forever la noche triste. And our whole household was in tears. Next day, Rio de Janeiro, almost a desert, silent, immersed in melancholy, looked like a cemetery. And the Press unanimously expressed this bitter sorrow of our Christian people. Now, look here, Dad, what this American paper, the very paper we like so much, dared to say against us Brazilians." And presently he stretched out TIME, Sept. 11, and there, almost unbelieving the testimony of my eyes, I began to read, under the epigraphs Latin America...
...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...
...parrot eats our crops"-my son interrupted my reading-"and poor parakeet gets an ill name. . . . Their bitter sorrow in North America must be the effect of a certain embargo they are removing just now in a hurry. While Brazil was the first Government to proclaim neutrality, the United States was reacting economically...
...sorrow and confusion after the death of the West's first Prince of the Church, Bishop Sheil had a quick decision to make-whether or not to cancel his speech. In a stroke of astute churchmanship, he resolved to deliver it as Cardinal Mundelein's political and ecclesiastical testament, a summing up of the liberal views which had made the Cardinal a personal friend of President Roosevelt and a public friend of the New Deal...