Word: woe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When special constables, brandishing their new truncheons, closed in on a woe-begone looking man who was helping himself to purple neckties, part of the mob suddenly set up such a roar of "Leave that man alone!" that the special constables let him alone and he absconded publicly with the purple neckties...
...week where every kind of match goes sooner or later. Foreign auditors were prowling through the graceful, modernistic business palace where Ivar Kreuger had ruled as "The Match King" until he put a pistol to his heart. But it was in Sweden's Parliament that Sweden's woe last week found utterance. "We know now that the Kreuger Company broke down not because of bad luck or bad conditions but because of dishonesty," cried Deputy Arthur Endeberg. "Sweden's business reputation will be ruined-unless we retrieve it by honesty, complete honesty!" Among English investors, according...
...procession filed up to tell their tales of woe. Senator Costigan felt more & more satisfied with himself. To a suggestion that his bill proposed a "dole," he answered hotly: "Americans must not starve while we quibble over words." Evidence lay before him from the American Association of Public Welfare Officials that only ten States were able to take care of their distress...
...leisure moment General Honjo himself favored U. S. correspondents with this Yuletide sentiment: "Manchuria is now a frozen and unhappy land, in the grip of winter and in the depths of woe. But you have a phrase in English-'If winter comes, can spring be far behind?'. The actuating motive of Japanese policy is to bring genuine spring back to this frozen land...
...case of After All the situations to be faced are a daughter's going off and living with an architect for two years before he marries her; and her brother's unhappy marriage with a poisonous Bohemian. The parents, particularly the mother, accept their woe with a good deal of self-conscious martyrdom. Spectators, aware that Playwright van Druten has done a faithful job of domestic reporting, leave After All with a tendency to remark: "What of it?" Margaret Perry, a pretty girl with eyes that turn up at the corners, easily turns in the best performance...