Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mood of many plain men last week: "Now we enjoy our food and our wine and the sunshine on the coast-as long as we have them to enjoy-and we can only hope that our children can learn enough to do better. We are finished. It is sad...
...Central Americans I have met feel a little sad about the lack of sizzle in their current revolutions. I found a doctor in Costa Rica, a newspaperman in Nicaragua and a customs official in Honduras this last trip who were all writing nostalgic biographies of William Walker, the Southern gentleman who used to make himself President of Nicaragua periodically and war upon everybody in sight. All three asked whether I knew of a good, reliable literary agent in New York...
...Sophie's slim-waisted models swept about her salon last week, the carefully curried audience of women (and one sad husband looking like a Displaced Person) cooed with pleasant surprise. Nowhere was there a sign of fantastic extremes that had given the New Look its painful expression. Sophie had simply gone her own, independent way and created a New Look that was an easily recognizable alteration of the Old. Shoulders were padded slightly less than before and waists were narrower, but few were corseted, and daytime hemlines, only slightly lower, were still a long way from the ankles. ("Everyone...
Under certain rare conditions, magic-eyed radar goes blind. This sad fact was brought out last week at a Halifax inquiry into the collision of Canada's destroyer Micmac with the freighter Yarmouth County (TIME, July 28). The Micmac's radar scopes, said her crewmen, did not show the freighter, hidden in a fog bank dead ahead...
Last week, Collector Halpert had cleared her gallery's top floor of moderns, to give Manhattanites a rare peek at her old stuff. On exhibition were 27 prize paintings and sculptures, mostly dating from the 19th Century (and from the early Hupmobile raids). Among the standouts: a sad-eyed Woman with Yellow Shawl from Massachusetts, a tapestry-like little Apollo and Marsyas by Edward Hicks, and a Hogarthian Farmhouse Gossip (see cut), signed T. G. Knight, which she had found in Pennsylvania...