Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alcohol will seep into the evening's festivities, Hughes learned to his sorrow, since a Massachusetts law outlaws liquor as a contest reward...
Berliners, like all Europeans, know the face of sorrow by heart, and it generally leaves them numb. But this picture was haunting, and the gallerygoers kept returning to it. It was an autumn landscape in which two old people, their backs turned, appeared to be thinking things over (see cut); a painting which spoke the timeless reproach of the dead, of those who would never again turn to face their persecutors...
...Budapest, a businessman whose factory is being run as a joint Soviet-Hungarian enterprise rallied from his end-of-an-era sorrow to observe, with a peculiarly Budapestian wistfulness: "He would have made a great partner...
...classicist Professor E. K. Rand, Princeton's medievalist Dr. E. A. Lowe (who had studied at Monte Cassino) and Morgan Librarian Dr. Belle da Costa Greene. They had issued a statement, conveying "to the Abbot and monks of Monte Cassino, now in exile, the expression of our sorrow and sympathy in this hour of tragedy and trial. We . . . ardently wish to contribute our mite to hasten the day of its reconstruction...
...When in Sorrow, Sing. The Colums saw Joyce most often in Paris, after Ulysses had appeared and he was working on Finnegans Wake. Already half-blind and often down on his luck, he expected "a lot of attention and help of all kinds from his friends." Now & then he would stalk unannounced into the Colums' apartment, sit down at the piano and begin to sing. "When anything hit him hard, Joyce had relief in singing, and all his songs were...