Word: woes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through the story, which is divided, epically enough, into nine books, the author is striving for the "epic note." He makes the wife of a poor Jewish teacher in Russia in 1840 cry out: "Let us cry woe! Why should a father say that of his only son?" Then the tale moves swiftly through generations down to Arthur Levy, intelligent psychiatrist, in contemporary U. S. Mr. Levy marries a Christian woman, has a child by her. But he is troubled about his race, hurt by the slurs of Nordics; so he finally leaves his family to go on a Jewish...
Last Friday Ass No. 1 was heard braying a pitiful complaint against the English 72 examination. "Woe is me, the naughty professor gave us an examination on outside reading and outside reading only. And the nasty man didn't even ask us anything about the lectures." Such was the tenor of the wailing of Ass No. 1. It is rather difficult to know just what this particular ass meant by "outside reading." A certain amount of reading was assigned to be done outside of the class and why one should consider any of this reading as more outside than...
...poor.' 'Verily I say unto you that a rich man shall hardly enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.' 'It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.' And in one terrible passage: 'Woe unto ye, scribes and Pharisees...
...onerous task of interviewing students bring into their respective offices a set of ideas which was adopted years ago and has been firmly cemented by the passage of time. If the student's own plans and tastes happen to coincide with those of his advisors, everything goes smoothly, but woe to him who has ideas...
Spellbound. Imagination, seed of woe, flowers into tragedy or pathos, according to the ground it falls on. In Spellbound, it has fallen on a London shopgirl. A pathetic play is the result. Yet so artfully is this pathos accented by Actress Pauline Lord, whose specialty has long been the anguish of the inarticulate, that the play's weakness is concealed. There are moments in Spellbound when Miss Lord crosses the high road of true tragedy and makes Ethel Underwood at least a half-sister to all whose dreams have led them lost...