Word: woes
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...blister If, having met a Mr. Bicester, I hailed him wrongly; it would grieve a Descendant of the clan of Belvoir To be erroneously addressed. It cannot be too strongly stressed: A shock awaits the fool who wavers Before he says, "Good-morning, Claverhouse." A burden of regret and woe Descends on those who Do Not Know, So I've endeavoured, in their cause, To jormulate some rhyming laws, Whereby the novice can with ease Preserve the starch amenities...
...Josephine Hutchinson, playing Mlle Bourrat, is a frail tissue rent with bewilderment and agony. Also in the cast is her mother, Leona Roberts, ridiculous as a hobbling, puffing aunt. Eva Le Gallienne does not appear, but her associates make this simple story a rich miniature of provincial weal and woe...
...innumerable. It is the Plebe's duty at meals to pour the water, milk, tea, coffee and anything else pourable. He carves the meat, sees that there is sufficient of everything on the table. At breakfast, he must know and tell the "number of days" to all important events. Woe to the Plebe who knows not "How many days till Graduation...
...Chicago, was the hero of the story which he wrote himself. Many another U. S. newspaper retold the tale of woe (TIME, June 3). Convict Burns got much sympathy. Letters, telephone calls, personal visits to Illinois and Georgia authorities besought a pardon for much-pitied Convict Burns...
Your exile is blest with all fate can bestow-But mine has been chequer'd with many a woe! Yet though diff'rent our fortunes, our thoughts