Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith, out in Illinois, Senator-elect Col. and Sen Frank L. Smith, Senator-elect and Senator-designate for the unexpired term of the late Senator McKinley, is debating Senator whether he should soon come knocking at the Senate door. His lawyer returned from Washington last week with the sad news that only 25 Republicans and four Democrats are willing to vote to seat...
...answered only by the individual. Where should education cease?--that is academic education, for properly speaking, education in its broadest and truest sense can never cease. There is no absolute line of demarcation, no point beyond which will only serve to create what President Lowell calls "sad misfits of ill-directed ambition." But there is a system, or rather an order of things, which has been gradually evolving and which may help to make the situation less difficult and this panacea receives discussion in this same report...
...really loved him, for all his fat. The familial relationship was purely commercial, his particular job being to sit with his front spread over his lap as bumpkins paused to wonder and snicker. Once he noted a youngish couple squeeze an impertinent witticism through their clasped fingers. He was sad for days...
...Please! From that sad wreck, the once scintillant Charlot's Revue, they have salvaged two treasures: Gertrude Lawrence who enchants the multitudes in Oh, Kay (TIME, Nov. 22) and Beatrice gillie who makes all men laugh in Oh, Please! The latter vehicle is a rickety contraption, muscial comedy, about an actress who invades the home of the President of the Purity League while his wife is on leave of absence. Apparently the Dillingham production executives tossed Miss Lillie the script with its two good songs ( Nicodemus" and "You Know That I Know ) and its feeble lines, and told...
...bald drug clerk and his lean wife cutting privy antics. He recalls Tar's first frights, shames, loves, possessions, just writing them down and then looking at them as Tar used to, stupidly perhaps but quite happily, saying, "Well, now. What to think of that?" The only sad note in Huck's boyhood came at the end, when his mother died and he cried for her in a freight car, then ran off to sell his papers, to shift for himself, to grow...