Word: woe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While the boy Cupid snatches honey from the comb, a predatory bee stings his finger. So does the short and transitory delight which we pursue bring us woe for it is interwoven with sorrow and pain...
...authorities are directing their attention to the college, always the "pet" of Yale men. The recent introduction of a general examination system, thoroughly familiar to Harvard cars, will undoubtedly invite bitter criticism and stinging comment from some graduates, whose attitude has always been, "woe unto the barbarian who lays violent hands upon our venerable college...
Spain's flamboyant oversupply of politicians had by last week brought that country to the edge of political chaos. The impassive, wrinkled face of Premier Manuel Azaña, Left Republican, was grooved with woe over the treacherous rioting of his ostensible allies among Communists and Socialists. Last week this reached a new high with the burning of five Madrid churches, seven convents, four schools...
Outside the farm problem, he has few interests except the Republican Party and his own ancestry, which he traces back through 300 years of pioneer U. S. farmers. So regular a Republican is the Iowa Senator that, whereas most agricultural leaders blame much of the farmer's woe on tariff walls, he declares himself "just like William McKinley" on that issue...
Merton Hodge's "The Wind and the Rain" blows in frenzied gusts across the Peabody stage, and leaves one touched by its graceful play of emotions, and gently stirred by its restrained passions. This is not a play to convulse the spectator with vicarious woe, nor to rack his brain with subtle problems of mind and soul. It rather wins his benevolent sympathy for the characters who are ruffled but not torn...