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Word: dolorously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...philosophical discussions with his professor-priests and his probing questions in Latin. He also spoke fluent English, taught him by his Irish-Canadian mother (Mary Ann Broderick St. Laurent) and his bilingual father. After St. Laurent became Prime Minister, a newsman asked an old schoolmate, the Rev. Canon Dolor Biron of Sherbrooke, for incidents of St. Laurent's college days. Said the canon: "Mr. St. Laurent is a man who does not have incidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Pere de Famille | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...time Slick has rejoined his boat, Author Vance has put the harried lovers over most of the worst jumps of mutual torment, misery and self-sacrifice. Once in a while dolor is relieved by snaps of humor and gay observations about human types, but all in all it is chiefly a must for those who love a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Escape | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...night when Architect Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) meets her in a Manhattan bar and takes her to a show, the Lady (Fay Helm) is no phantom. Her handsome dolor is made the more memorable by a fiercely rhetorical hat. At the evening's end she drifts off without giving her name, and Architect Henderson drifts homeward to find detectives chewing cigars and chicle over his strangled wife. All efforts to find his alibi prove useless. The bartender (Andrew Tombes) has never seen her. Neither has the randy little drummer (Elisha Cook Jr.) who ogled her all evening. Neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1944 | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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