Word: sackful
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...skilful screen play, are to be thanked for this. In spite of a painfully whimsical addiction to locutions like "by gum," they write several pieces of conversational love ping-pong and one jagged quarrel which make the average piece of would-be-sure-footed screen dialogue look like a sack-race on snowshoes...
...share to cut cleanly through the turf. The event, the origin of which is obscure, gradually came to be celebrated as a British religious festival. By the 17th Century, observance of the day had ended: instead of going to church the ploughmen celebrated by getting drunk on sack...
Joan Fontaine, wistful, heartwarming, Oscar-winning Hollywood tragedienne, gave notice that she was through with "tearjerker" roles (Rebecca, The Constant Nymph), would turn gay, beginning with her new picture, The Affairs of Susan. Said she: "I was the Sad Sack of the screen. . . . From now on . . . no more tears...
...Sack. At Fort Lewis, Wash., Pfc. Sol Katz, back from leave in The Bronx, reported that he had lost his watch when a jewelry repair store was robbed, his uniform when the cleaners burned down, one of his medals to a thief on the train, his garrison cap, which he left in the baggage rack; found that he had returned from furlough a day early...
...Clark would soon take over his new post as Allied military commander in Italy. When he did he would probably reshuffle his staff, probably put into the line Italian troops now nearing the end of their training. But even Clark could not change the Italian theater's sad-sack military role: to keep the pressure on the Nazis with the troops available, while reinforcements went to the western front. For the troops available it would continue to be a hard, dangerous, uncomfortable winter...