Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sad blow was dealt to Harvard hopes for the rest of the season with the announcement yesterday that Joe Romano, sparkling Senior forward, will be out for the remainder of the season...
...broad-jump and high-jump situation is sad. Stu Grover, only experienced broad-jumper, is sick, and the rest of the men are green. There is a real need for entrants here, and Jaakko is urging that any Freshmen interested, experienced or not, should report soon. In the high-jump, however, there is a bright star on the horizon, for Dean Hennessy, now playing basketball, is planning to turn to track at the end of the hoopsters' season. But Pete Garland is at present the only man there, and he is not really a high-jumper. In the hammer throw...
Wending his way up to 14 Plympton Street, Vag sobbed. How awfully sad it was! No more to see the genial conservative M.E., the boy who made Winnetka ill. The sporty lad from Milwaukee, the peerless peer from Cleveland, the genial South'n gennleman from Kentuck'. . . . The turnover of the Crime always made the Vagabond sad, but this was an especially unhappy night. He looked at his watch--4:12, time for a quick session with the pinball boards at Harry's Club. Man against machine, amateur against the elements, sucker against Gottlicb. Vag racked-up four frees...
...there. They hadn't: Cleveland, Brookline, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Cincinnati and New York--what a joyous progeny of Uncle Sam! And there, hanging from the chandelier grinning inanely was Inchball, good old Feather stone cough, who never failed to wing his way from Shangri-La for this sad, glad occasion. Vag felt a sudden exuberance, even before the punch was made; he was amoosed though confoosed...
...seem to her, and to irate Brazilian literary circles, many remarkable similarities between her own novel, A Sucesora, and the more recent Rebecca. In London Miss du Maurier denies ever having heard either of A Sucesora or its author, prior to the accusation. Her publishers point out that "the sad-second-wife setup" (framework of both novels) is as old as the Book of Ruth. The story of Frenchman's Creek seems an even more universal legend. If one forgets Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Miss du Maurier can vindicate her unoriginality by quoting Pope: What oft was thought...