Word: woe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working classes, but his attitude toward the Russian peasant is for us an interesting psychological problem which needs to be studied. Maxim Gorky warns us thus: 'Leaders of the Bolshevists, remember my words! The day is not distant when the Russian peasants will revolt against your terrorism, and then, woe unto you! They will ruthlessly "unscrew" your heads...
...plot curdles. Home from the bounding main with a wreath of gigantic pearls for his sweetheart, a sailor man stops on his joyful way for a shave. Woe is his, for Sweeney Todd, barber, gnawed by the weevil of avarice, has long had the vile habit of dropping his rich customers through the floor, chair and all, to a subterranean death chamber; there slitting their throats, robbing them, erasing all traces of crime by transforming the corpses into "veal" pies, succulent, rich in gravy, spiced with hairs and buttons. Such is the mariner's fate−until the last...
...those who walk in woe...
...with breath bated and hearts palpitating. The Communists yowled whenever a Communist failed to answer his name, which usually meant that he was in prison; when the name of Prince von Bismarck, grandson of the Iron Chancellor, was called, they replied with: "Woe unto you who are his grandson!" Then came the L's and with them "Ludy's" name. The Communists shouted so loud that they almost frightened themselves-a Herculean effort that made their former exertions appear entirely Lilliputian. Jealous Monarchists screamed "Ein, Zwei, Drei" and thundered a counterblast of shrill hisses. "Ludy," always a perfect...
...Woe to the man who does all his outside reading for the kingdom of health shall not be his!. Or so says a member of the English department. Perhaps that is the reason why most men are contented with mere C's in their courses--realizing that to aspire higher involves doctors' bills and other unpleasant consequences. It would also seem to be another reason for abolishing assigned outside reading altogether. Something else might be done. The instructor might conceivably say, "Here, young man, are some very excellent books. There is no particular reason why you should read them, except...