Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheek-pouches in which she could carry food. Her fingers would bend until they lay flat on the back of her hand. She had two marmosets which she fondled like children, and indeed they bore a noticeable resemblance to her; they would sit in her lap, gazing with sad eyes into her underslung face. She spent her spare time crocheting, but she read widely and spoke four* languages. Cultivated people were astonished when they talked with...
...from de binnstuck was a kestle in wheech it leeved a hogre wot he ate opp pipple. So Jeck gave a knock on de door so it upperied de door de hogre's wife. So Jeck sad: 'Goot monnink, Meessus Hogre!!' So she sad: 'Who you??' So he sad: 'Hm-I'm from de Gezz Company-wot I should ridd de mitter. . . .' ". . . So it came in gredually de hogre wot he gave a sneef so he sad...
Last week an item concerning Jay Gould, for 19 years the world's court tennis champion, appeared on the front pages of several metropolitan newspapers. The story of his life and his athletic successes was recounted with much picturesque detail, prefaced by the sad particulars of his recent and disastrous illness. His photograph also?a plump, animated, swarthy face with a short mustache and a very round high forehead?was published near the stock photograph of Henry Miller, the actor (see MILESTONES), who had died on the same...
...approached the woman and asked her to pose for a painting, asked her what made her look so sad. The woman replied...
...Sad Young Men?F. Scott Fitzgerald ($2). Stories of resignation on this side of paradise...