Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told them I was sad that this battle apparently had to be; that I had come to Maroc not as a man of war but as a man of peace. Their genial manner disappeared, and they both bowed their heads. The Naval officer put forth his hand to shake mine, and as he raised his face, there were tears in his eyes. The captain also shook hands in a very moving manner, and I was free to go about a city under siege entirely unmolested...
...neater or fairer study of labor relations has been made. Author Nichols moves all over the plant. But the pivotal symbol of the book is Pressure Stillman Gus Hammer, in whom, as his stills and his lifetime's skill become hopelessly outmoded, courage and dependability gradually degrade into sad, senile little tricks of sabotage, dangerously overambitious misjudgments of what a still bottom will bear. They have to pension Gus off two years before his time, and all he is good for is sitting down by the lake...
Died. Dr. George Washington Carver, most famed Negro scientist; in Tuskegee, Ala. His age was uncertain: he was born of slaves about 1864. Coal-black, sad-eyed, fragile, white-polled, he spent most of his life in his Tuskegee Institute laboratory (originally assembled from scrapheap oddments) exploiting the possibilities of the soybean, peanut, sweet potato and cotton. From the peanut he developed more than 300 synthetic products (including cheese, soap, flour, ink, medicinal oils), from the sweet potato more than 100 (including tapioca, shoe polish, imitation rubber). "When I get an inspiration," he once explained simply, "I go into...
...perennial reception given Jack Kirkland's earthy vehicle of the poor South is a sad commentary on American audiences. Somehow, in eight years, someone should have had the downright sense to stop the flow of "adult only" and "daring presentation" publicity that has provided the abortion with packed housed. Yes, people will be dragged to see the ramshackle spectacle once, but only the degenerate or perverted could have the wide-eyed desire to go back and see two and a half hours of unadulterated country ham again...
...Goodman left the Hotel New Yorker, the most satisfying band is Muggsy Spanier's, on WNAC Tuesdays at 1:15 A.M., Thursdays and Saturdays at 1:30 A.M. For one of the jazz immortals, Muggsy has less ideas, but more drive than anyone I know. The band is rather sad without him, but the Dean Kincaide arrangements are wonderful listening...