Word: downheartedness
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The British had almost no heavy equipment in Crete, so they did not have to worry about preventing that from falling into enemy hands. The only thing to get off was men-straggling, struggling men with dried sweat and dust caked in their beards, clutching water bottles as if they...
What happened afterwards made U. S. citizens realize how Wendell Willkie must have looked to Englishmen. Lord Halifax saw the towers of Manhattan from the Empire State Building (it was his first trip to New York City) with Al Smith, was whisked from conference to luncheon to conference, preceded by...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Bobby Hackett, Brad Gowans, and Lead Belly, the great Negro singer with a questionable past, will be featured at a dance at Cantabridgia Hall tonight. This is a swell opportunity to hear Bobby in an atmosphere more congenial to him than what the Versailles has to...
Not downhearted was Ralph Ingersoll. He declared that his circulation was going up, argued that his onetime employer, The New Yorker, required some $750,000 capital before it turned the corner, although it had hoped that $100,000 would be enough (but The New Yorker did not go through reorganization...
Said Director John Ford when he saw these real live painters: "This is the damnedest miscasting I ever saw." The cast: blond, amiable, plodding Grant Wood; dark, volatile Thomas Benton; shy, diminutive, big-eared Raphael Soyer, with the faraway, downhearted look of his old men and nudes; tweedy, sophisticated George...