Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last and sad farewell...
That pays thy many virtues sad acclaim...
...bearing your bright new shield and spear. I hated to see you go out of my house and close the door behind you; but I think I would not have halted you if I could. I salute you, sir. I cannot pretend that I am not sad; but I am proud, too. So long...
Americans aboard the Gripsholm (see p. 26) brought the sad news from shackled France: portly, jolly-jowled, kind-eyed Edouard Herriot is dead. He died in a prison of silence, watched by Vichy jailers. The Pétain government did not proclaim the death, did not mourn the massive liberal who was thrice Premier of France, 36 years Mayor of Lyon, always a tribune of the people...
...Leader's spark is sad-eyed, 50-year-old Samuel M. Levitas, who came to the U.S. from Russia in 1923, after three years in & out of Bolshevik prisons. Slim, midwestish, white-haired William E. Bohn, onetime teacher and Socialist lecturer, writes most of the editorials and a chatty, personalized column-"so there'll be something the working man can understand." Daniel Bell, 24, who was a working Socialist on Manhattan's lower East Side at 13, is an associate editor. Another is tall, grey, ex-Communist Listen Oak, who was "disillusioned" by a trip to Russia...