Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weary interpreters could eat big lunches again-a luxury strictly prohibited while they were on duty. It had been quite a job, preventing diplomats from sounding like barbarians to each other, but they had carried it off with astounding smoothness. Chiefly responsible for their brilliant performance was a sad-eyed, grey-maned Frenchman called George J. Mathieu-a veteran of the League of Nations-who had hired, trained and organized them...
...cannot face it!" After breakfast, I trudge up the hill wondering how I can bear to face the brats, racking my overwrought brain as to how I can keep each class busy throughout the long, long day. Every evening I come home full of wonderful stories, some funny, some sad as hell, and filled with new ideas on how to get an idea into the poor little heads. Then, after dishes, I start to work on next day's plans. At 10, or more frequently midnight, I creep to bed like a licked cur, only to dream of teaching...
...went the untimed, slipshod samisen strumming; the tedious Kodan-storytelling; the poetry on the co-prosperity sphere. In came popular music (current hit: a romantic tune, Song of the Apple), comedy shows and precisely timed modern, democratic plays (John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln). The most popular storyteller, sad-faced, bowlegged Musei, dropped the tale of Sugato Sanshiro, the legendary judo champ, and picked up the Arabian Nights, Aesop's Fables, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson. He even did a five-night version of Gone With the Wind...
...Army, One Navy. But "at this sad and breathless moment," said Mr. Churchill, these things are not enough. "This is no time for generalities, and I will venture to be precise." Then he precisely recommended the course of action which startled the U.S., Britain and the rest of the world...
...expertly exuberant Dancer Harold Lang (Fancy Free) and wryly imperious, tonily shrill Brenda Forbes, a kind of Class B Lillie. But otherwise, Three to Make Ready is a very wet box of matches-a bathroom sketch whose humor is even more out of date than the plumbing, an interminable Sad Sack todo, a facile take-off on Oklahoma!, comments by a grimly recurrent radio comic named Arthur Godfrey. Everything considered, Three to Make Ready would have done far better to confine itself to Bolger and a backdrop...