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...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...
...your issue of April 3, under the heading Catastrophe you say "Motorists whose cars had been mutilated by falling wreckage find to their sorrow that earthquake hazard is not covered by standard automobile insurance...
...chief concern in life is her connection with the D. A. R. Father Blakeley, having neither ancestors nor job, moons disagreeably about the house. Sister Phyllis takes up with a gangling radio crooner (Ross Alexander), marries him during a night out. Brother Clay, Yale sophomore, discovers to his sorrow that the old song was entirely incorrect. He gets a New Haven waitress in trouble...
...Angeles County, firemen razed 435 badly damaged buildings. Insurance companies handled claims as quickly as they could get reports from their investigators, but motorists whose cars had been mutilated by falling wreckage found to their sorrow that earthquake hazard is not covered by standard automobile insurance...
Silver trumpetings, chantings of choirs, parades in regalia preceded the consistory. Pius XI delivered an allocution on the state of the world and listed his joys and sorrows since the last consistory. Solemnly he declared that, as remedy for the world's troubles, he alone had indicated "sound and solid principles, charity and justice and fundamental indestructible truths and teachings on the value of souls. . . ." He invited all nations to "consider what serious moral, intellectual and even material disaster is inevitably being prepared wherever the Church is openly or covertly combatted." One sorrow the Pope mentioned was the Orthodox...