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Sorrowful Yellow Men. Not half so happy were thousands of enemy aliens who did not fall into the FBI dragnet last week. In Los Angeles a 61-year-old Japanese, Takematzu Izumi, a resident of California since 1896, swallowed poison when he heard that Japan had attacked Hawaii. Said he...
With grave and sorrowful formality the Secretary of State notified Finland that if she desires to continue friendly relations with the U.S. she must immediately discontinue military operations against Russia.
After the show, the two elders of the household, dreaming of the glories of a vanished England, move up to bed, to death. The younger couple, a sorrowful, sadly mismated Adam and Eve, are left alone to their marriage and to silence, sailing like disconsolate swans on the exhausted calm...
It is an irony which controls and blends extreme psychological slapstick with suggestions of the most sinister and sorrowful mysteries of life.
"In their mortal peril," said a grave and sorrowful Churchill, "the Greeks turned to us for succor. . . . They declared they would fight for their native soil . . . even if we left them to their fate. But we could not do that. There are rules against that kind of thing. . . . An act...