Word: woe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people had accustomed but not blinded him to human misery. In the winter of 1914 he began trying to feed and house a few down-&-outers, many of them drunkards and criminals. What made them that way? wondered Father Flanagan. Deciding that the best place to combat human woe is near the beginning of human life, he borrowed $90, found five urchins, started a home for homeless, wayward, neglected boys. Since 1917, Father Flanagan's Boys' Home has become a source of pride to Omaha, a model institution for the nation. Through Father Flanagan's hands have...
...during the confusion of an air raid. He, a Canadian soldier, fails to perceive that she is a prostitute. She, because she is one, refuses to marry him. This situation could scarcely have had a cheerful resolution but the one the story gives it seems almost a conspiracy in woe. The soldier takes the girl to visit his mother and step father. She tells his mother what she is and runs away back to London. The soldier follows her. learns all about her from her landlady and, still eager to marry her, finds her again on Waterloo Bridge. They...
...orderly but pregnant with violence was the start of a Communist strike last week in Paterson, N. J., great silk manufacturing centre of the U. S. Sponsor for the walkout was William Zebulon Foster's radical National Textile Workers' Union whose agents and inciters took such woe and bloodshed to the cotton textile industry in and around Gastonia, N. C. two years ago (TIME, April 8, 1929 et seq.). Paterson's hard streets are historically fertile soil for labor disturbances; twice within the last decade have they been harrowed by major textile strikes...
Shoot the Works! Nobody could accuse Heywood Broun of misanthropy. Weighed down by public woe, he has run for Congress on the Socialist ticket, flayed Mayor Walker in his World-Telegram colyum, and now, saddened by the plight of the jobless actors, has staged a cooperative revue. None but the players can profit. If the show succeeds they will be paid; if not they will be no worse off than before. The show's backers expect no profits...
Dear Father, we would learn to trust The doing of Thy will, And in Thy perfect law of love Our doubts and fears would still. Help us to know, in joy or woe, Thy ways are always best. And we, Thy children evermore, By Thy great goodness blest...