Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best tunes, is now songwriting in Hollywood), she long ago left Manhattan's grubby East Side behind, now lives in an apartment overlooking Central Park. Last week, in an orange-brown gown and with fingernails lacquered scarlet, she went to see Warner's Rhapsody. "It was sad," she said; "not for me is this a time to show off." She was pretty scornful of the show's rag-to-riches theme: "It's not the truth. . . . There was always enough money for Georgie's lessons. Poppa had twelve restaurants. But [the film] is clean...
...Germans had thrown the Allies back in the sea at Anzio, said Ike, "it would have been a very, very sad thing . . . [but] I never considered it, because I do not ever let my mind think upon it that...
They asked Harry Hopkins to do one more job. Roosevelt's sick, sad and weary friend was about to leave Moscow, after making arrangements for the next Big Three meeting, when President Truman got in touch with him. Secretary Stettinius had told the President that the San Francisco conference was deadlocked on interpretation of the one-power veto. Could Harry fix it with Stalin...
Joyce was an obscure fascist bully boy in 1939 when he fled England, a week before war began. He took with him a quantity of his wife's household goods, the funds of his National Socialist League and a Manchester show girl. During the sad days of Dunkirk and Norway, the horrors of the blitz and the better days that followed, Britons listened with amusement to Joyce's silken sarcasm and twisted truth on the German radio. They often noted his plea: "To some I may seem a traitor, but hear...
Gertrude Stein, who wrote out the war in occupied France, wrote in the New York Times Magazine: "And now I have been asked are the young men of this war after the war is over, are they going to be sad young men. No, I do not think so. And I do not think so for a most excellent reason, they are sad young men already, if you are sad young men then there is a fair chance that life will begin at 30 instead of ending at 30 and I think more or less that is what is going...