Word: sorrowfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scientist must also hew to the Marxian line. Such a one was Professor Arcady Klimentievich Timiriazev, sometime lecturer at Oxford and Cambridge, and professor of plant physiology at the Moscow State University. The explosion of the Russian Revolution, when he was 75, brought down his grey hairs not in sorrow but in grandeur to the grave, gave Soviet cinema a legend on which to base this richly human drama of an old scholar-hero...
...much of sorrow...
...Russians on the Polish front, many a hazardous undertaking of the Communist Party, a turbulent love life, closes during the last days of the Russian Civil War, when Ivan made a fatal error of judgment because he forgot momentarily that "in revolution there is no place for sentiment or sorrow or heart hollowness-no place at all for love...
...Sorrow & Politics. For a week Joe Robinson had prevented the Senate from adjourning, had closed each meeting with a recess so as not to break the "legislative day," the fiction under which Senators were denied the privilege of speaking more than twice. Mrs. Caraway after announcing the death of her colleague, said, "I move the Senate do now adjourn" and a solemn chorus of "ayes" approved her motion. Thus ended Senator Robinson's drive for the Court Bill's enactment...
...Robinson back to his native Arkansas were, besides the Senator's family and friends, 38 Senators, 23 Representatives, Postmaster General Jim Farley, Assistant Attorney General Joe Keenan, Undersecretary of the Interior Charles West. It would not be just to say that any of them did not have sorrow in his heart, but all had politics, biggest politics. Hardly had the train pulled out of Washington when the politicians started and it continued, save for a few solemn moments in Little Rock, until the train pulled again into Washington's Union Station three days later. Every compartment where...