Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joan Fontaine, wistful, heartwarming, Oscar-winning Hollywood tragedienne, gave notice that she was through with "tearjerker" roles (Rebecca, The Constant Nymph), would turn gay, beginning with her new picture, The Affairs of Susan. Said she: "I was the Sad Sack of the screen. . . . From now on . . . no more tears...
...most tolerant as well as the weariest of all the answers was that of Austria's (now California's) sad-eyed Arnold Schönberg: ". . . Considering the low mental and moral standards of artists in general, I would say: Treat them like immature children. Call them fools and let them escape...
...grown sad, are Love with wide girls' eyes...
...Sad Sack. At Fort Lewis, Wash., Pfc. Sol Katz, back from leave in The Bronx, reported that he had lost his watch when a jewelry repair store was robbed, his uniform when the cleaners burned down, one of his medals to a thief on the train, his garrison cap, which he left in the baggage rack; found that he had returned from furlough a day early...
Lightest gay-sad story is about two Irish Trappist monks who have put everything in the world behind them-except making secret bets with each other on the horses. The loser pays the winner in Hail Marys for both their souls...