Word: sorrowfull
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Perhaps Mr. Farrar's diagnosis of the American frame of mind is incorrect; perhaps he does Americans a great injustice; perhaps he credits them with a virtue which they do not deserve. But if his diagnosis he correct, wherefore be sorrowful? Perhaps the beauties of serene contemplation are lost upon...
Some dominies were humorous. Buddha, they readily grasped, was something to joke about-a funny cross-legged little figure like a Billiken. Others were taciturn, others sorrowful, others inspired to righteous wrath; but on one point all were agreed - it would be a horrible thing to permit the effigy of...
Some of them were old, with peaked brown faces gouged and distorted by the wild turmoil in their heads; some were boys who admired the carpenter because of his sorrowful eyes and comely figure; others peddlers and harlots, cripples scabrous with loathsome diseases, twitching paralytics, and mahogany-faced bushmen who...
Since the New York run, the tragic finish of "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" has, in the twinkling of an eye, been changed to a happy one and the change can scarcely be called an improvement. Otherwise the play is as it was before, of the theatre, theatrical, but vastly effective, this...
"Don't let yourself be misled by the eloquence of this very wily and resourceful attorney, my adversary. Keep close to the facts, and if you do that we have no fear. If this jury should fail to agree to vindicate this lady triumphantly, she would go out of this...