Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, John Franklin Chattin, 24, art student, committed suicide. In his room the landlady found some old sketches, mostly grotesque faces, an essay that fumbled with sad puerility at a definition of mortality, a note saying: "What does it all matter anyhow?" and a copy of Death of a Young Man by W. L. Rivers (see p. 38 for a review...
...Munich airport Baroness von Maltzan, former Fraulein Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, and her little daughter, Edith, were waiting for the arrival of husband and father. An official approached, sad news in his eye. The Baroness, with superb self-control, sensed the full import of the messenger's news. "Tell me," said she, "is he killed?" And without an answer being given she knew...
...fellowship and the intrusion at odd moments of the ridiculous pomposities that beset princes of every romance, are the details that Director Lubitsch loves to fondle and set forth. In the end the prince returns to marry a very unattractive body with a long title. The little maid turns sadly away to face what seems to mean a career as "college widow." But the film is never allowed to be as sad as it is merry...
From the clown whose heart was breaking beneath his greasepaint, even though he capered and grimaced ever so gayly, from the sad fate of the little sawdust equestrienne, from the scores of tragedies of tarnished tinsel, the playwrights of today 'have traveled rather swiftly over a long road. They have left behind the doubtful humors of bathos, which are caught by only a minority of their listeners and even then in contradiction of the author's intention. From the mists of experiment may appear the author who can view life again as a stage, with perhaps some of the subtlety...
...waltz, they all sat still as statues. Saxophone and trumpet made them run and jump. Then, when the musicians stopped, the monkeys shrilled, squealed, jabbered, in a frenzy of fantastic enthusiasm. At last the bass viol boomed; then all the little monkeys, blinking and peering, pushed their sad faces against the bars...