Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...correspondent of the same paper, at present on a visit to Palestine, condemns the Zionist movement as "an act of British folly." Describing a visit to Jerusalem, he says: "The sad little Zionist settlements are bankrupt; they live on foreign alms. They were built upon a fantastically uneconomic foundation. The opulent dreamers of an exiled Jewry have grown weary of pouring their donations into an insatiable soil of a thirsty land. Without the largesse of rich American and European Jews, Zionism cannot live an hour longer...
...Emporia Gazette, William Allen White makes this suggestion: 'The President in the White House is having a sad time getting himself across to the people who have yanked him onto a pedestal and coated him with a plating of austerity because he has vast power. If they only would think of him as WARREN !" In his series of articles on American newspapers, appearing in The Nation, Oswald Garrison Villard last week described the Hearst press. Journals previously treated have included The Kansas City Star, The Public Ledger (Philadelphia), The New York World, the Jewish Forward...
Ganna Walska McCormack, before making vocal advances to audiences in New York and Chicago, gave Detroit a taste of her quality. Here are some comments, taken at random from the Detroit press: "But she has not much of a voice "; "a woman of courage"; "nasal squeaks"; "sad, hopeful, handsome, ambitious, incompetent artist"; "program was mercifully brief"; "sincere worker in the field of art." Mme. Walska explains that she does not take Detroit critics seriously. Her Chicago debut has been indefinitely postponed...
...some, this theatrical example may seem untrue to life, while others, among them those who live beyond the Mississippi, may contend at least that such a thing would not happen in the "open-hearted West". These objectors should hear the sad tale of Chaplain J. R. Calder of the Colorado House of Representatives, who was officially reprimanded for reporting to his Creator that: "Our courts are corrupt; God has been expelled from out churches;--our boys and girls are going to the dogs; our laboring men are going to work with empty dinner pails, while our farmers starve...
...some thousands of miles away. It is they who in large measure furnish supplies of relies for tourists in "rubberneck wagons"; and these, doubtless, groan over the ignorant sightseers and their complete lack of appreciation. As a group such "scientists" will never be numerous but it will be a sad, dull day when there is no longer excavation to be done nor archaeologists...