Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when he was elected Governor of New York. When Postmaster General Farley resigned (National Chairman Farley had already quit) to go to work for the New York Yankees and Coca-Cola, a hint of human regret tinged Mr. Roosevelt's reply: "I accept with real regret . . . sincere sorrow. . . . All of us . . . will miss you deeply. . . . I need not tell you that you have always my affectionate regards...
...something called Chief Diplomatic Adviser to the Foreign Secretary. Winston Churchill brought him downstairs again as one of his key advisers. Last week, as the French colonial armies and fleet joined the Petain Government in surrender (see p. 32) 59-year-old Sir Robert could no longer contain his sorrow. He expressed it, as many an Englishman would, in a letter to the London Times. The letter was a poem whose title embraced the years of the Entente Cordiale...
...Peace Haven, the Long Island mansion where the Royal Fraternity of Master Metaphysicians are bringing up their ward, Jean-and hope to render her immune to death by sheltering her forever from human misery-went Austrian Prince John von Starhemberg, 2, child of exiled Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg. Sorrow is an old story to him. When the two met (see cut), Prince John wept. Year-old Jean wavered, then stayed true to her training, laughed...
...What has happened fills us with horror and sorrow. . . . Neutrality as such is no defense in these times. We have no illusions. ..." So spoke the sober Stockholm Tidningen last week as Sweden, only one of the Oslo Group's six peaceful powers as yet unscathed by war, prepared to recast her shattered foreign policy, seek a strong new friend in Moscow. What disgusted the Swedes as much as anything was that day-old German papers, arriving in Sweden the morning of the Lowlands invasion, front-paged an official D. N. B. declaration that all talk of such an invasion...
Hartford City mourned its citizen. Said an editorial in the Hartford City News-Times: "The death of George D. Stevens, paper-mill executive and philanthropist, is the cause of sorrow and widespread regret in this community. . . . Those who knew him best cherished his friendship the most. His philanthropies were large, but the extent of his benevolences was never submitted to public gaze...