Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Generally speaking, the Germans are a very sad people," he said. "The only ones who enjoy the Nazi rule are the sixteen-year-olds who honestly like to march all the time." The Germans are stunned by the fact that America has survived the depression yet retained its fundamental liberties, he said, and they are beginning to lose faith in their form of government...
After this sad record was spread out, FTC officials admitted last week they had "slipped badly," said they would reorganize their legal setup so that no FTC lawyer would ever go to court again with sieve instead of brief. But Mr. Kidder was left to wonder whether he had won anything but a moral victory. Said he: "The FTC [was] about as successful in putting us out of business as they would have been had we not appealed...
High on the rooftop of his Stamford, Conn. home, hulking, sad-eyed Novelist Sholem Asch (The Nazarene, Three Cities) fought a chimney fire, was overcome by smoke, had to be hauled down by the laundress...
Perhaps John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra) could polish off the script. But though characters in O'Hara novels sometimes refer to each other as "Fitzgerald characters," O'Hara is more a Hemingway derivative, belongs less among the sad young men than with U. S. Literature's dead-end kids : James M. Cain ( The Postman Always Rings Twice), Horace McCoy (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?), pseudonymous Richard Hallas (real name Eric Knight...
...generation that never grew up-or rather of its period of hectic ar rested development. This period he had fixed memorably in a series of remarkable prose movies: This Side of Paradise, Flappers and Philosophers, The Beautiful and Damned, Tales of the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby, All the Sad Young...