Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sad Sam" did not have to elaborate. He and Alabama's ex-Governor Frank Dixon, vociferous champion of States' rights and white supremacy, had joined for months in urging the South to secede from the New Deal and form a "Southern Democratic Party...
Next Christmas, U.S. children will have to get along with 30-to-40% fewer toys than Santa Claus brought them last year. This was the sad conclusion of some 3,000 retail buyers who crowded together to stock up for Santa at the annual American Toy Fair in Manhattan last week...
...Sad Case of Prunes. OPA is also laboring to readjust mistakes in the point system. Now that the normal workings of the market are eliminated, OPA must guess at the relative values of commodities. Inevitably it makes mistakes-e.g., the case of prunes...
...alas and alack, and sad to relate Misfortune did him befall. His grade in the quiz was one point eight And now he's in study hall. Percy Ingerman...
...school, is fresh to his history teacher and fights with a snob, one Hubert Ackley III. After school, Homer learns to be a man. His teachers are his boss, benevolently eccentric Tom Spangler (James Craig), and old Grogan (Frank Morgan) the telegrapher, who drinks every night to forget the sad messages that come over his wire. Freckled, four-year-old Ulysses (Jack Jenkins), called "Useless" for short by his playmates, is Homer's kid brother. He constantly asks unanswerable questions, learns about life from such simple but significant incidents as a Negro's friendly wave from a passing...