Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years since the Armistice. It tells of a French father whose son was killed in the conflict and who has been thriving ever since on his grief. He is a hero; he is to be elected to public office because the public has become so sympathetic with his sorrow. Just at the wrong moment the dead offspring turns up and trips...
...sense of the mysterious, shadowy glory of the play and its production can be translated in these brief sentences. The sorrow of centuries and the majesty of a great ration are prisoned in the tiny theatre. And strangely enough Mary Ellis, once original prima donna of the highly colored, highly contemporary musical comedy, Rose-Marie, is the leading actress, giving a performance for which a playwright prays...
...allocution he deplored civil unrest in Italy; expressed sorrow for the tenseness between the Church, and the governments of Chile; Argentina, Mexico and Czechoslovakia; rejoiced over better conditions in France, Poland and Bavaria; announced the extension of the jubilee to the 700th centenary of Saint Francis d'Assisi. In 1928, the Ecumenical Council, which Italy's union in 1870 caused to be suspended, will probably be resumed where it left off. At that time many questions on the reuniting of schismatics, possibly the "Old Catholics" and perhaps even some Anglicans, will come up for the consideration...
...there is naught but sorrow, the sweet associations and tender memoirs of eyes "bunged up," of noses wonderfully distended, of battered shins, the many chance blows anteriorly and posteriorly received and delivered, the rush, the struggle, the victory! They call forth our deep regret and unaffected tears. The enthusiastic cheers, the singing of "Auld Lang Syne," each student grasping a brother's hand, all, all, have passed away and will soon be buried with the football beneath the sod--to live hereafter only as a dream in our memories and in the College annals...
...MAN?A little sin, a good deal of sorrow and a ray of sunlight under the Manhattan Elevated...