Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope I have a chance to make sure you and Elizabeth got back okay in spite of the terrific 101 degrees-as I find no fear-perhaps even peace of mind but a sad lonesomeness-it is strange with a lot of people supposedly looking...
...very sad to see what love can do towards regenerating these two kids-who-never-had-much-of-a-break-in-the-world. But the real, soggy lump in the throat during all the love scenes is that you know, and Dane knows, that Geraldine may cork off at any moment; and that Geraldine doesn't know it at all. The makers of this movie, not caring how morbidly sentimental they got, obviously hope that it will tear your heart...
Eight months later, at the expiration of the gubernatorial term, Earl was out of the statehouse. The reformers, led by an unknown young attorney named "Sad Sam" Jones, were in at last. Sam Jones streamlined the government, set up civil service, and spoke of getting payrolls and industry for the state...
...campaign went on, Earl borrowed leaf after leaf from Huey's book. He promised the people things they would be "able to see and feel"-veterans' bonuses, roads, $50-a-month old age pensions. Sad Sam Jones promised too, but Earl was as specific as the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. He made it plain that a vote for Long was an order for material improvement. He abused the newspapers. Like Huey, he recited Invictus: "I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul...
...Sad-eyed Munoz, founder and president of the Popular Democratic Party, speaks the jibaro's language. His friends say that he could explain the Einstein theory so that a child-or a jibaro-could understand it. His faith in the jibaros is almost mystical, but he knows they must...