Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have never aspired to be famous. If I had, then I could say to myself, "All right, brother, you made your bed, now lie in it." But this thing just happened. . . . I feel sad, because it has given me the big things of life and taken away the precious little things...
...time ago." The Prime Minister's face paled. He sat down, motionless for five full minutes. Then he lifted his head, with the heaviness of a man who is suddenly very lonely. He whispered: "Get me the Palace." He informed the King, then called Washington, then labored with sad heart far into the night over the words he would speak in memoriam...
Thus the story ran around the earth. Palestinians prayed each in his separate fashion, in church, synagogue and mosque," for the man who had gone. Indians saw "a bleak sad future" - they voiced their fore boding to passing G.I.s: "Sahib very bad news. Your President is dead ... a hard working man for war, a friend of poor...
...Dodgson loved romance - but all he did about it was write a sad little satire about a young man who, on seeing a sign reading "Shop of Romance-ment," joyfully became an apprentice -only to find that the sign really read "Shop of Roman Cement." He loved the theater - but when he met beautiful Actress Irene Vanbrugh he could think of nothing to talk about but the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England. Of dazzling Actress Ellen Terry he made what was probably the most passionate declaration of his life: "I can imagine no more delightful occupation...
...roads to Mandalay had never seen such strange companies of men: long-bearded Sikhs, tall, blond Britons, swart Gurkhas. Their companions were as strange. On almost every truck and tank perched a sad-faced monkey. A sheep marched beside an Indian Army officer, took cover with him in battle, lay down beside him at night. Fierce Gurkha warriors walked beside their mules, talked affectionately to them, brushed them devotedly (a Gurkha looks upon a mule as infallible, and weeps like a child when one is killed...