Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...testifies is Lotta Crabiree's living niece, who has just thought of the rather amusing fact that she is the daughter of John Crabtree, Lotta's formerly childless brother. This other trifling circumstance happened out in Arizona where things always have been a little hazy anyway. The sad moral of this tale is that one should either be careful where and whom one marries, or remember the casual affair afterwards...
...geese safely crowded into Appleton, one might hear the lilting songs of plowboys coming home early from Soldiers Field. That were pastoral felicity! But alas! to he awakened at four in the morning by the cackle of hens in the all too appropriate Lampoon Building--that would be a sad aftermath of a perfect day in rural Cambridge...
...change along the highways can hardly be estimated. When long lines of malted cows no longer straggle across the deep-blue meadow, the autoist may find line to admire the bovine sedateness of the brirdled cow. When the sad white pup ceases to moan up into the victrola, when the tire twins stop rubbing their eyes and get to bed, when that inexecrably good-looking rounder stops boasting of the mile he never walked, when the world has used up all that good gulf gasoline, then the tired eyes of city dwellers may no longer be tortured by the garish...
...likes to tell the story, and he will when he speaks at the Union luncheon tomorrow, as the guest of honor at the fourth of a series of lunches for theatrical stars. When the stage manager, by announcing the second act, interrupted the story, the comedian became quite sad faced. "In 1922" said Eddie Cantor, "the night before the Yale game, when the Harvard team was waiting anxiously in New Haven, I ate supper with them and tried to entertain them. They were amused and I was pleased. I told them that if they beat Yale they might have every...
...Sad, destroying fact ... no funds . . association has shrunk. . . ." Such phrases came, last week, from the lips of Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor. He, glum, was deploring the withdrawal of public support from the great memorial to the Confederacy which, under his direction, has been rising on the face of Stone Mountain, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 13, 1923; May 26, 1924). Those two proud gentlemen, Generals Lee and Jackson, stand raised among their armies on the mountain's craggy front, half- formed. In the U. S. mint, 5,000,000 half-dollar coins, with Lee and Jackson riding their horses across...