Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honolulu's red-light district is small and sad-20 frame houses straggling along alleys near a brackish river called Nuuanu Stream. But since Pearl Harbor it has profited fabulously because thousands of soldiers, sailors and civilian workers have funneled into the Island of Oahu. The Army & Navy, which cracked down on open prostitution in the continental U.S., had winked at it in Honolulu, perhaps because the venereal rate remained extremely...
...wrote Playwright Maxwell Anderson last May, in a bitter poetic outburst for which the New Yorker paid him $180. What had moved Maxwell Anderson to sad song was a piece of gerrymandering. By redistricting, Anderson's South Mountain Road home in the Hudson River valley had suddenly become a part of Congressman Ham Fish's constituency...
...sad note, however, was injected by one unfortunate Freshman, who saw his blind date walk off with a stag a few minutes before the end of the dance. He sorrowfully but vehemently declared, "I wish they would enforce the no-stag rule at a no-stag dance!" Most of the twelve, however, thought the bureau was "a pretty good gamble." Everybody had an enjoyable evening dancing to a variety of slow and fast numbers supplied by the Record Committee, and exploring the dark solitude of the Upper Common Room...
...evening of the third day the attack had stalled. The divisional commander, in short, unhappy grunts, gave the old, sad diagnosis-the Japs were dug in; the Chinese could not clean out the enemy with rifle, bayonet and machine gun alone...
...Although many listeners were deeply moved, others ("usually better educated and more sophisticated") resented Kate Smith's emotional approach. Said one: "It's a sad commentary that the American people have to be entertained to make them buy something as important as war bonds...