Word: woe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William Berryman Scott, patriarchal Princeton paleontologist, described a dinner party held in Ecuador some 1,600 years ago. A group of Indians sat watery-mouthed while mastodon steaks were sizzling over their fire. Beside the fire were laid their fine Mayan dishes. As the banquet was about to start, woe, in the form of a clay bank, descended upon the party, preserved the bones and pottery for posterity. Uncovered in 1927 by German archeologists, the find redated the reign of the mastodon. Until lately the mastodon was generally thought to have died about 20,000 years...
Best title: Come Weal, Come Woe, My Status...
...frequently complained that the Metropolitan owns only one Cezanne and has recently kept it out of sight; naturally this can bring no great woe to Critic Cortissoz. Nor must he feel sad because the Metropolitan owns no paintings at all by Derain, Matisse, Picasso or Marie Laurencin. On the other hand, idling along its corridors, he may visit many collections greatly to his liking. There is an extensive U. S. group. The Italian collection is noteworthy, including a Tiepolo ceiling and a roomful of Primitives among which is an Aretino and a Segna di Bonaventura. There may also be seen...
...came; unusual because instead of being complacent stockholders, they were armed with the spirit of "We want to know why!"; unusual because they practically declared a dividend without their directors' approval; unusual because President Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel, an exMarine, confessed in a long theme-song of woe that his stockholders have made him cry like a baby...
...France only two things count with the university faculties--work and brains. A student may live as he likes, he can take all the class room "cuts" he wishes, but woe to him if he slips up on any of the stern and comprehensive examinations at stated periods. His university education ends right there if he fails to show himself proficient...