Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sad, serious, and rotund Mr. Moore, innocency personified, it is Senator Oliver P Loganberry, "The Watchdog of the Senate," detailed to New Orleans to investigate the machinations of the Louisiana Purchasing Company. Boss Man William Gaxton is anxious to prevent the Senator from making his investigation and attempts to sabotage shy, misogynist Oliver by filling him with "Mississippi River Water," planting Vera Zorina on his lap, and then snapshooting the scene. Baffled by Loganberry's purity, Gaxton tries again, plants Irene Bordoni in Oliver's bed, but the Senator tops his enemies again by marrying the buxom Madame Bordelaise. Louisiana...
...What do the critics expect the people to do ? They are not "excited" and are "silent" about the war because they are sad, embarrassed, and confused. Sad, because the war unsettles everything and because we have to do the job over again we thought we did in World War I. Embarrassed, because the country was caught unprepared and because we and our allies, at this stage of the game, are being continually outsmarted and defeated. Confused, because outside of those in the service or in defense activity they feel they can do nothing but buy bonds, pay taxes...
Yale is very much more powerful than its sad record indicates, its only two league victories have been against Columbia, but the best the Crimson could do was to split its two games with the Lions. And while the Crimson lost to Brown by one point, the Blue won from the Bruins by the same margin...
...sad people of Europe, preoccupied with news as near at hand as hunger and cold, Singapore seemed far away. But Singapore was cut from the same pattern of conquest with which the people of Europe had become sickeningly familiar, and there were men in Europe last week who could have told the people of Britain and the U.S. what it means to be conquered-what it costs in brutalization and degradation, what man-made famine is like, what it is to be regarded as slaves of a Herrenvolk. France after 1871 and Germany after 1918 were not like Europe last...
...Sad Music...