Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Money, politicians know, oils the wheels of the political machine. Last week Democrats, buoyed with hopes for 1928 elections, found their exchequer in the usual sad state. A report filed by the Democratic National Committee, with the clerk of the House of Representatives, showed a debt of over $200,000. Republicans, smarting under charges of bought elections, tartly replied that Democrats have no scandals because they cannot pay for them...
...however, managed to remain respectable in the matter of dramatic entertainment and usually has afforded enough plays to satisfy any nicely adjusted histrionic digest on. Therefore the coming drought during which almost every legitimate theatre remains closed for a fortnight is not so much a Lenten penance as a sad testimonial to the decline of "the road...
...African Gander," by Simeon Pickering, depicts rather startlingly, for the first time, a well-known young woman reclining on a sofa with no clothes on at all. A sad gander meditates her buxom figure while the young married woman herself contemplates a bowl of "peaches...
...dying." Industrialism continued the war, continued slavery. Lincoln's son headed the Pullman Co. Andrew Carnegie vowed to retire to Oxford at 30 but amassed millions instead, and wished another generation the joy he had missed in libraries. Charles Francis Adams went in for railroads. Colorless, sad Howells, despairing Mark Twain, bitter-black Ambrose Bierce were the successors of Herman Melville, whose grappling with the primeval had been tragic but sublime; of Whitman, whom Mark Twain congratulated on having lived to see the marvels of steam and electricity. "The guts were gone from idealism" and William James offered...
...with the name, and besides there are more damning criticisms for a revue than "inane", though certainly it is that. Perhaps the show is languishing with the man who gave it birth. Perhaps it never was any better and its 13 month run in New York is just a sad and true commentary on the fact that it takes all kinds of people to fill theatres...