Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sad state of affairs when Freshmen just starting out upon "the shortest, gladdest years of life" so lose their sense of perspective that they see only shame and dishonor to this "great institution of learning" in one of its gladdest phases, a phase that is also its oldest tradition...
Zweig traces the sad and triumphant story of Rolland from his early visit to Rome when he fell under the inspiring influence of Malwida von Meysenbug; when Tolstoi so kindly answered the young man's letter of doubt raised by his booklet What's to be Done?, through the lonely years of his unsuccessful "tragedies of fate", including "Danton" and "St. Louis", through the year of the "heroic biographies", which gained for Rolland an interested but small following, to his final and definite victory with his ten volume novel "Jean Christophe" (1902-1912), and the disappointments...
...that anyone would object to the exit of the very sad prohibition jokes--but he resents the implication that he may not make such a joke whenever the spirit so moves him. Humor, however, is irrepressible; and the ridiculousness of the plan itself causes the prohibited to chuckle. As a contributor to the New York Times has pointedly asked, "will we have to have still another law prohibiting jokes about the suppression of prohibition jokes...
...railroad man, is the innocent victim of the Law (capitalized). Their troubles begin when her first lover turns out to be a house-breaker and she is convicted wrongly with him. She breaks her parole, marries Mr. Lake who is a crook hater,--without telling him the sad past. Obviously this is the best way to court an embarrassing future. It does not fail; she is arrested in New York after ten years have gone by Her husband is directing his energies at the time to prosecuting a poor youth gone wrong, although his associates, as his wife had long...
...Sothern's Hamlet is appealing because of the utter despondency and unrelieved pathos in which he plays it, yet though it strains the sympathy of the observer almost to the breaking point it fails to arouse a feeling of fellowship. The sad compassion one feels for the miserable unfortunates of another world than ours is roused by this Hamlet because of this very height and monotony of suffering--no mere mortal could bear it without either involuntary reaction or complete dissolution. For this reason by far the most effective appeal is made in the moments after Hamlet has trapped...