Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albany Episcopalians protested against Presiding Bishop Perry "giving sorrow to the members of the Protestant Episcopal Church by his attendance at such [Anglo-Catholic] Congress...
Yellow Dragon. Famed for centuries as "China's Sorrow" and the "Curse of the Sons of Han," the Yellow Dragon staged its most spectacular Hood in 1852 when it shifted its entire course from the south side to the north side of the Shantung Peninsula. Ever since it has discharged into the sea 400 miles north of its former mouth. Last week the Government experts, prowling anxiously up and down the Yellow River's dikes below Kaifeng. finally telegraphed a nation-wide warning that "almost inevitably" the retaining walls will give way and the Yellow Dragon will revert...
...STRANGE CASE OF PETER THE LETT -Georges Simenon-Covici, Friede ($2). Inspector Maigret, mystified by duplex identity, spurred by sorrow, exhibits super-human activity, and bags...
...company who had put up his bail guarded his life, as it was evident from letters he had left that the old man's despondency was great. The letters contained references to his son Alan whose death in an automobile accident in 1928 was a source of constant sorrow to Mr. Harriman and to whose grave he went directly after escaping from the hospital...
...have been twice to Florida, & three times to Europe. I have been to two boarding-schools, & gained a great many friends in diffirent ways. ... I have learned how to faint, & have inheirited a fortune. Have been through a long illness & had a terrible sorrow! And I might have been married if I had choosen . . . I have never sworn eternal friendship to anyone, nor written poetry since I was eleven years old." On her 17th birthday (Dec. 28, 1870), Julia Newberry thus cast up her accounts. This two-year diary of a last-century Chicago socialite is less kittenish and platitudinous...