Word: woe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oldtime Speedboat King Gar Wood, 73, was still having the sort of woe that most romantic gentlemen his age only remember. Five years ago he tangled in court with a resolute young thing who claimed that she was "more than a secretary" to Wood in his $100,000 Miami home. After he learned that she was mar ried and threw her out of the mansion, she cried that it was hers as a gift, along with $25,000 in bonds and cash. Wood kept the house; she kept the negotiables. Last week spry old Wood had employee trouble again, this...
...fifty mile radius of Grauman's Chinese is awfully lonely behind the facade of glamor and sophistication. Perhaps these doctrines are healthy sops for those who go whole days without being asked for an autograph, but they are rather boring, especially when thrown into an already crowded agenda of woe...
...lanky, long-necked clergyman emerges from the deanery of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, shuts behind him the learning of 40 centuries, gazes wearily down a hill black with automotive traffic, whispers: "Woe, woe is this perverse generation . . . A generation which travels 60 miles an hour must be five times as civilized as one which travels only twelve...
Your March 15 article, "Woe Throughout the Nomes," reads: "As it was in the beginning, piercing lamentations arose last week from Wallagrass, Maine to San Ysidro, Calif." Being a "Mainiac" for some 23 years, your reference to Wallagrass has me stumped. Maine has its Waldo, its Winnegance, and its Wiscasset; but where, pray tell, is its Wallagrass...
...Philippines' President Ramon Magsaysay, in office only two weeks, soon regretted his glowing invitation to Filipinos, extended in his inaugural speech, to telegraph complaints directly to the President. From all over the islands, thousands of long wires of woe crackled into Manila. Hastily, Magsaysay trimmed down his generosity: henceforth, though they may still be sent free, telegrams must wail in 50 words or less...