Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great, sad eyes of liquid, melting brown turned last week in mute reproach upon the President of Austria, good Dr. Michael Hainisch, kindly, snowy-bearded and well beloved...
While the bell swung and tinkled beneath Bella's placid, munching mouth it signalized that no other cow in all Austria gave so much milk as she. Last week President Hainisch braved the sad, brown eyes of Bella and took away her bell because he had had tidings of a cow named Maria, owned by one Herr Kraft of Graz. This rival cow,, this upstart Maria, has produced this year 2,400 gallons of milk and bettered the record of Bella by several foaming pails...
...therefore appeases his soul and enlivens his sad spirit not a little when he considers the prospect of being soothed by Arthur Honegger's symphonic psalm "King David" which the Glee Club is singing in Symphony Hall tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock...
Last week a fire started in the Eden Musée. It began burning near Charlie Chaplin's effigy; the sad and funny little man subsided mournfully into smoking grease. The flames leaped from figure to figure, stroking their oily faces with a hot and magic hand. Before long, all the ugly famous criminals, the sly and silent actresses, the solemn, musty presidents and the fake policemen stationed to fool visitors-all these people with their stiff faces and their blind, secretive eyes, sharing also with their no less sly, no less secretive models the total inability to escape...
...things white. Many Caucasians will call it a lewd, crude book. It is certainly lacking in inhibitions. That is why it is more convincing, and hence a more significant work, than Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven. "Liquor-rich laughter, banana-ripe laughter," says Jake. That, plus sad rolling eyes, is Harlem...