Word: woe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parade dress and "100,000 Dutch girls," thousands in national finery-not the everyday Dutch peasant bonnet but the gala holiday bonnet with embroidery and ornaments of actual gold, these representing solid Dutch peasant savings of many lifetimes. In The Netherlands nobody ever snatches or steals such ornaments, and woe to whoever should! Alighting, the bride & bridegroom went indoors to be united in civil marriage by the Burgomaster of The Hague, and to sign the register. No Dutch burgomaster ever omits to lecture a Dutch couple on this occasion severely and at great length, pointing out that marriage...
Schorr who sang the woe of the ghostly captain with such feeling one could well believe he was doomed to sweep across the seas forever until a girl's love would win him rest...
Jittering, the Mexican Confederation of School Teachers announced: "The arrival of Trotsky will divide the workers of Mexico, especially school teachers like ourselves, who at present are fighting desperately for unification of the ranks of labor. It will encourage the assassins of labor and work woe to Mexico...
University authorities may find it difficult to enforce the bi-female rule recently inflicted on the Houses, but woe will be Connecticut when she tries to enforce a 17-year-old law tomorrow forbidding the conspicuous display of red banners anywhere in the State...
...most impressive are a Polish Block and an Italian Block. The Italian is 5-ft. 8-in., 200-lb. Edmund Franco, left tackle, whom Coach Crowley calls the best college lineman he has ever seen. The Pole is 5-ft. 11-in., 190-lb. Center Alexander Franklin Wojciechowicz (pronounced Woe-gee-hoe-wits), whose hobbies are cooking and helping his mother crochet rag rugs. Last week Fordham's Franco, Wojciechowicz & colleagues blocked so efficiently that Purdue's Isbell, Drake & colleagues gained only 54 yards rushing all afternoon, one-third as many as they gained against Minnesota three weeks...