Word: woeful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...United States, viewed the close-order work of the Regiment, after arriving too late to see the combat exercise. His chief criticism of the corps, whose work in the field exercise was praised by Lieutenant Morize, was that in the close-order tactics the men showed a woeful lack of that "punch" needed to carry field work through to a successful finish under adverse conditions in real warfare...
Whether this last German note will mean diplomato break or not, is still to be settled. But one thing this crisis ought to bring home to all patriotic students in our colleges; the woeful ignorance of the national problems before this country today...
Such is the established policy of weekly journals. Slam the undergraduate and especially slam the professor. Woeful indeed is such ignorance. Yet those editors of this periodical who have taken History 1 in the University should know that if Gallipoli and Saloniki are unknown to students it is not the fault of the course. It is true that the earnest student is so swamped with work in learning what men have written in the past that he must largely defer until graduation the pleasanter task of reading what they are writing now. Even so, he grows while in college...
...them that he has named his play. Around them he has built up the action of the piece, setting forth the personalities of four heroic women: Hecuba, queen of Troy; Cassandra, her frenzied daughter; Andromache, wife of Hector; and lastly, the false Helen. Amidi the droning chants of the woeful choruses we see the suffering of these four. The scene in which Andromache played with spirit and sweetness by Miss Edith Wynne Matthison, parts from her little son Astyonax, is a dramatic episode of great power. Miss McCarthy as Hecuba is a stately queen and Chrystal Herne and Gladys Hanson...