Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sad Sacks...
Extremely happy to see your item about the Sad Sacks. I have spent some time around mental hospitals and prisons where I "accidentally" had access to files of psychiatric diagnosis. Uhler's note on the "Army's evasive psychiatric procedures by which a precise diagnosis was avoided in favor of mere description and paraphrase" would be a kind way to state the chaotic, uncritical "diagnosis" of psychiatrists in general...
Defeat for La Follette was a sad finish to an imposing family history. First Fighting Bob, then Young Bob had sat continuously in the U.S. Senate since 1906. Young Bob's departure would mean the loss to Congress of a Senator with great technical excellence, whose last fine job had been the pushing through of the Reorganization Bill despite Congressional indifference...
...Lombardo, sad-eyed maestro of unhurried dance music, stepped up his tempo and happily raced away with a water-speed title. At Red Bank, N.J., leisure-hour Boatsman Lombardo won the national motorboat sweepstakes. Next: a crack at the Gold Cup in Detroit this Labor...
...Thank you so very much for the good work you are doing. It is a sad commentary on all of us, myself included, that we wait to do such a thing until people like you make it so easy. I wish my contribution might be more proportionate to the need-but a teaching-fellowship balanced against a family of four leaves little over...