Word: woe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pacts & Punditry. During the war, when cable desks were more important than city desks, the tabs had also tended to pass up the "LIVE WIRE KILLS CHILD IN HOUSE HEXED BY WOE" for pacts, problems and punditry. Last week there were signs that the tabloids were reverting to type. They had sensed-more quickly than other U.S. papers-that the "news" and the public taste in news might be changing. (In England it was London's feature-packed Daily Mirror that had profited most from the lifting of newsprint controls...
...Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters, when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appal! Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness...
...woe's me that I should love...
...mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing; Our helper He, amid the flood Of mortal ills prevailing. For still our ancient foe Doth seek to work us woe...
...Cardinal Schuster granted him the use of the cathedral. It was not nearly big enough. A throng of 300,000 came to hear him call upon Italy to "give the world a new age of Christian individualism wherein the wealthy, like the early Christians, gladly share their excess wealth. . . . Woe to the rich man who does not hear the call. Woe to the poor man who angrily nourishes hate and dreams of violence.. . . The age of love is approaching...