Word: wailful
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...unhappy result is an undercurrent of anti-Semitism at small Midwestern colleges, which have lately enrolled many bright, as well as aggressive Eastern Jewish students. There is universal hatred of universal military service-ranging from intelligent questioning ("Isn't the Peace Corps more useful?") to the fatuous wail of a Princeton senior: "The Army doesn't pay enough to keep me in beer. I'd have to ask my father for money...
More impressive still was the second song, a mournful dirge for a executed man later proved innocent. The transition from the joyous love of anticipated happiness to the grief of love that can only wail its anguish was smooth; the atmosphere in Sanders changed almost instantaneously...
...excess revenue in speculative stocks. In an abortive revolt against the "machine at the annual election in March the main complaint of the rebels was that the club leaders had in effect fulfilled their agencies too well and too efficiently. "We've been terrorized and sherryized," was the wail...
Makes widows moan and orphans wail...
Widow's Wail. Casimir, who died this month at 64, led his band for 40 years. Most of their work was playing in street parades for funerals, and no one in New Orleans could line up funeral work like John Casimir. Over the years, his friends said, Casimir learned the knack of arriving at a sickbed just after the priest and just before the hearse. If the victim looked sick enough, Casimir would give him a quarter. "Go buy yourself some ice cream," he would say cheerily, tipping his hat to the dying man's family. Everyone knew...