Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expected "a lot of attention and help of all kinds from his friends." Now & then he would stalk unannounced into the Colums' apartment, sit down at the piano and begin to sing. "When anything hit him hard, Joyce had relief in singing, and all his songs were sad...
FitzGerald returned to his Suffolk solitude, where he wrote his little-known translations of Aeschylus and Sophocles. As he aged, he became one of the county sights-a "tall, sad-faced elderly gentleman ... in an ill-fitting suit. . . blue spectacles on nose and an old cape. . . ." He lived to see his Rubaiyat become famous, but died (1883) a couple of decades before its fame became "a mania which swept the world" and posed a literary question that still engrosses Rubaiyat lovers : How much of Omar is Omar and how much is FitzGerald...
...Japanese "Mickey-Mouse" money often would not buy fish and rice to feed your starving wife and children. The only way out was to steal. Imperceptibly, insidiously, inevitably, a weakening of the moral fiber had to come about. Thus, even long after V-J day, we see the sad spectacle of a considerable number of Filipinos still finding it convenient and profitable to live by their wits...
Yard basketball competition ended last night with playoffs for the first and third slots. The Straus Sad Sacks gained the crown as Holworthy failed to appear and forfeited the opener, while Weld crushed the Matthews Marauders 52 to 38 in the nightcap to take third place...
Yard basketball supremacy will be decided tonight when the Holworthy Veterans and the Straus Sad Sacks, who finished the league race in a flatfooted tie for first place, take to the court in the Indoor Athletic Building at 7:30 o'clock in the nightcap of a scheduled double bill...