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...year of the Communists. In the Chinese calendar, the old year stood for misfortune and deceit. A few surreptitious firecrackers, still forbidden under martial law, last week heralded the New Year of the Ox, which signified hard work and persistence. In present-day China, inevitably, it also signified sorrow and loss...
...Sorrow." Franklin and Eleanor were a gay and carefree couple. Franklin went to law school, Eleanor started having babies. The family spent many joyful summers at Campobello, New Brunswick. There Franklin once walked in his sleep, an incident which Eleanor described to Mama: "He suddenly leaped up, turned over a chair and started to open the shutters. I grabbed his pyjama tails and asked what he wanted and received this surprising answer: 'I must get it, it is very rare, the only one and a most precious book.' After some persuasion he returned to bed, very angry with...
...Mama always seemed to have something to worry about. "To my sorrow," she wrote from Paris in 1907, "I find . . . that my dear boy's bills are not paid, though two years old. I have today been to the bankers and the bills are paid...
...Calves' Feet & Sorrow. Last week U.S. leaders were looking at disaster in China-but not looking very hard. Their detachment clearly said that this bullet did not bear their number. As good humanitarians they would continue to "give aid" to China, with something of the air of a squire's lady bringing calf's-foot jelly to the drunken and dissolute mother of 13. If mother & brood went Communist, that was solely because of her moral disorders. One had, after all, brought the jelly; only so many calves had so many feet; and there were the deserving...
...with more sorrow than anger that I read your comments ... It is a misleading, irresponsible article...