Word: woe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finds, while their bodies now have all they can desire, their souls still want. They are not happy. Whereupon Sadko and some brave friends (one young, one strong, one wise) set out to catch the bird of happiness. After many adventures, Sadko realizes that there is no such bird. "Woe to him," cries the wise friend, "who tries to grasp happiness by a conscious act!" "Happiness," Sadko tells his people on his return, "is here, at home...
...immediate seduction," he says in an aside, and proceeds to administer treatment. A goddess intrudes and soon beguiles him back to Elysium. The disappointed Soprano is certain she can still have the mathematician, but he and the Satyrs mock her vocal advances. "Love is a sickness full of woe," they all agree, and the chorus, with upturned noses, murmurs, "We told...
...When police clubbed and shot demonstrators, the bodies of the dead and wounded were dragged to the mosques, where the mullahs exhibited them. Within a week the Ahmadiyas had been forgotten: thousands of hungry Pakistanis had turned their wrath on the government. In the streets they cried "Hai Nazimuddin" (Woe on Nazimuddin...
...early 20s, Ida Scudder went back to India to help her ailing mother. One night, as she sat alone in the mission bungalow at Tindivanam, a Brahman came to the door with a tale of woe. His child wife was in labor, and the midwives had given up hope of saving her. Would Miss Scudder come to the rescue? Ida said that she was not a doctor, but that her father would be glad to help. The Brahman, shocked at the idea of violating purdah, bridled: "Your father come into my caste home and take care of my wife...
...Auguste chanced to meet a sad-eyed seer who called himself Professor Pedro-"Expert in Things Occult." The professor listened sympathetically to Auguste's tale of woe, and bemoaned with him the cruel fate which kept lovers apart. "If only," blurted Auguste at last, "that husband would drop dead!" Well, murmured the professor soothingly, why not? A few hints dropped here & there to the right people in the spirit world-all the professor needed to do the job, in fact, was two pigeon hearts and 27,000 francs. Auguste procured both items...