Word: woe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their time, their money, their lives, on committees, on staffs, on patient registers, to hospital work. And, as there is no anger like that of the hampered welldoer, each wanted to speak forth on the injur ies to his intentions. Some criticisms and suggestions: Trustees. "They are often woe fully ignorant of even the pressing problems of their institutions. They employ officers and condone methods which they never would tolerate in their own enterprises. They inter fere in the conduct of business and meddle in professional matters and still wonder why their hospitals do not function efficiently and why they...
...malicious undines or night-prowling water-sprites of the olden time, went millions and tens of millions of small water-folk rejoicing in a new paradise. Scientists do not believe in fairies, good or bad, but they were quite willing to believe that much of Central Europe's woe was the work of these small water-folk. They were muskrats, common American fur-bearing rodents, fiber zibethicus. In 1903 an enterprising Czech farmer introduced them to the Danube basin where they increased and multiplied amazingly. But as they multiplied in their new environment, their coats deteriorated, becoming short...
...university Pollyannas must remember that canines, though necessary beings, are not, after all, the most delightful companions when they continue to growl like child Menckens. The weather is rather impossible; the divisionals very near at hand; the tutorial reading twice as inglorious as the poorest want ad--and woe is truly upon every ice cake and puddle of existence. But cynicism usually prefaces belief. And the sun really is getting farther and farther from Palm Beach and nearer and nearer the waste lands of Cambridge. Dog days are almost over...
...woe to the swap of the sweeping swipe...
...Woe betide the luckless time...