Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pink-cheeked Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer last week crawled tentatively out on a limb. Said he: "The end of the recession may be at hand." Sad-faced old Dr. Edwin G. Nourse, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, was not ready to go quite that far. He was "very definitely encouraged," though he did not think that "disinflation" was ended...
...average citizen in California, Oregon and Washington voted for pensions with something of the attitude of a nightclub sot listening to Mother Machree-it was hard to be critical because the words were so sad. Furthermore many of the old folks had a legitimate case. But this summer thousands of taxpayers were recalling their own generosity with purse-clutching alarm. The Pacific Coast had become a minor-league welfare state of its own, and new pension and welfare plans seemed to be pushing the states toward the brink of bankruptcy...
After a year, in which more than $100,000 worth of penicillin was used, the doctors came to a sad conclusion: if you want to ward off a cold, chalk is just about as useful as penicillin - and a lot cheaper. Neither prevents a cold...
...hardest for Cap'n Menke to swallow-is in the customers, now mostly heckling wiseacres from the big city. "When the folks come in from the little towns where we used to play our shows straight, from Golconda and Shawneetown and Chester, they look at me with a sad expression," he says. "Our shows've been spoiled, they say; the old days are dead." Then, toughening up, he adds: "Of course, we don't care what they come for, just as long as they lay their money down at the box office...
...struck a low blue note characteristic of the exhibition as a whole. Buffalo's Hubert Raczka had painted a lonely little figure through the bars of a fire escape, called it Insignificance. The Portland Museum School's Robert Galaher had wrapped his hulking Circus Worker in a sad, smokelike haze, and Milwaukee's John Pagac had contributed a fatly photographic Self-Portrait that might have been inspired by reflections in a beer bottle on a morning-after...