Word: woes
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...schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; . . . Thus, nearly 100 years ago, did Longfellow begin his famed ballad of the wreck of the Hesperus on the reef of Norman's Woe. Last week, another schooner Hesperus, hailing from Gloucester, a few miles north of Norman's Woe, was sailing the sea off Cape Cod when...
Though Chinese often take a morbid pleasure in exaggerating the statistics of their woe, the Government seemed justified in thinking last week that at least 25,000,000 Chinese face anything from inundation of their homes to starvation or drowning as a result of the floods now loosed...
...five years of misery and woe" during which "hunger was my true comrade", he worked in Vienna as common laborer, carpenter, housepainter, picked up a little money decorating Christmas cards. In 1912 he went to Munich and his spirit lifted into the "two happiest years of my life." Though he still had scarcely enough to eat, he did drawings for the newspapers, had them accepted, prowled through the museums, observed the most leisurely, tolerant culture of pre-War Germany. In these fine years he did four of the water colors on view last week in Munich, including well-rendered "architectural...
Amid all this Chinese woe there was one Great Power whose leader last week made a gesture friendly to Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Benito Mussolini sent to him as a gift a monster four- motored Italian bombing plane worth...
...catch their breath last week. Fleeing on by junk. 36 pious folk suddenly became aware that acute pangs of childbirth were troubling Mrs. J. E. Graham of Carbondale, Pa. and Mrs. W. N. Wagner of Waterford. Mich. Jounced by the waters beyond endurance, they presented such a spectacle of woe that even with bandits hot on the junks trail there was nothing to do but pull ashore. In a rude Chinese peasant hut Missionary Doctor George Totell of Chicago performed the hasty, almost simultaneous deliveries-from Mrs. Graham a daughter, then from Mrs. Wagner a son. Piling back aboard...