Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gallery's enterprising director, bald, sad-eyed Curt Valentin, had chosen 26 assorted bronzes, terra cottas, plaster, wood and granite pieces by 16 of the ablest U. S. sculptors. All of them were U. S. citizens, but less than half of them were U. S.-born & bred. Deftest sculptures exhibited were by Ukrainian-born Abstractionist Alexander Archipenko, German-born Heinz Warneke, Spanish-born José de Creeft, who teaches at Manhattan's New School for Social Research...
...Rhumbas and all kinds of Spanish and French songs stuff the ether waves. Tunes like Tales of the Vienna Woods and Glenn Miller's swing version of The Volga Boatman are being played a hundred times a day. Hardest hit was the Lucky Strike Hit Parader, which had a sad time scaring up enough pieces to fill its heretofore overcrowded fifteen honor spots. Fred Waring has had to give up his theme song and resort to the classics...
...windows of Thanksgiving dinners and hear with wistful ears the solid sound of think leather sole on the cold pavement. Nine million farmers can assemble all right . . . to see white milk run gray in the dust of the road, to smell full grains burning sharp and sad in clear fall air while the government budget swings to its unbalanced balance...
Before leaving Paris on the afternoon of November 5, we-my wife and I-stopped to say good-by to our old friend, the proprietor of the large cafe in the Place Marceau. We expected to find him rather sad at our departure; but no-he was all smiles: "You will be coming back before long," he said, "and to a happier France! For I have just heard good news. I have just heard a German soldier grumbling: 'Du lieber Gott, I greatly fear that Roosevelt has been re-elected!' There is a high moral authority in question...
Died. F. Scott Fitzgerald, 44, who suffered a heart attack three weeks ago; author of This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, other books, stories of the "sad young men" of the postwar flapper era; in Hollywood...