Word: woe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tell the Deep-Sea Viceroys the story of our woe...
...would not be out of character if Newshawk and Lecturer Pierre van Paas sen girded up his loins with a goatskin, brushed wild honeybees from a matted beard, strode through the streets of Manhattan (where he now lives) muttering: "Woe to her that is filthy and polluted! What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?" For this descendant of many Dutch Calvinist divines is something of a modern Zachariah, a minor social prophet in the line of Tolstoy, Strindberg, Shaw and Ibsen. Pierre van Paassen knows how to number the sins...
...always lamented to be perishing out of the land and just as perennially renewing itself. Not for nothing did Kittredge begin teaching at Exeter, and Latin at that. A teacher be remained to the end, in his classes you might be called on at any moment to "recipe," and woe betide if you flunked, even though called upon only once a year; for some of the traditional schoolmasterly truculence always stuck to his tongue, and yes, some of the pedantry also...
...Northampton constabulary is on the job these days. Even Paul Revere would have a hard time getting through the town at more than a slow canter. The little yellow triangles with their glass-lettered '25 m.p.h." mean what they say nowadays, and woe to the luckless wretch who presses the accelerator down to the floor and watches the needle creep slowly up to twenty...
...usual fuddyduddy, MacMillan is a reminder that Canada also produced Lord Beaverbrook. Says he: "This war demonstrates that no one owns his property, that one's job and standard of living are all at the service of the State. . . . War is the greatest creator of social revolution. Woe to ... the greedy reactionaries...