Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ballet interest will have been used up by the first group before the second ever arrives. It is very probably this skimming off of much of Boston's dance money that is the cause for the incredibly small audiences seen in the Opera House since Monday. It is a sad fact, but an obvious one which Miss Chase and Mr. Smith ought to absorb, that no city in the United States except New York is likely to support two ballet companies running within hailing distance of one another...
...whether the back would go to class Monday, and most of all whether he'd have to be banged up again before he got his letter. On the way back from the game he watched lots of things he never saw before: the foolishness of an empty stadium, the sad looks on the peddlers who got stuck with left-over pennants, the way the House looked on a Saturday evening when the windows seem to be having a party...
Like several million other doubters, sad-faced Jockey Eddie Arcaro didn't believe that Assault was as good a horse as his record said he was. Like the other doubters, Arcaro had never ridden him. The horse that began the season by winning the Big Three-the Derby, the Preakness, the Belmont Stakes-had been so-so ever since. It took less than two minutes last week to change Arcaro's mind, and almost everybody else's. In the $25,000 (winner-take-all) Pimlico Special, with Arcaro up for the first time, Assault came...
...Potter. She often wore big wooden-soled clogs, and skirts of hard, crude tweed, woven from the wool of her own sheep and fastened at the back with a safety-pin-creating such an impression that a tramp, passing her once in a rainstorm, called sympathetically: "It's sad weather for the likes o' thee...
Another "gratefully ectomorphic undergraduate" made it clear that the only thing for a matrimonially-inclined female to do was disregard the song sad strictly "mess with Mister In-between," when he launched the following poetic trade against the mesomorph...