Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DESIGN IN EVIL-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Shanghaied Manhattan maiden on an outbound motor cruiser is in a sad plight when a psychiatrist insists that she is schizophrenic, and the subsequent stabbing of a frightened woman is charged to her account. A tempest-tossed thriller with interesting psychological overtones...
When Parisians spotted the plane's boldly blazoned Free French Cross of Lorraine, they cheered hysterically. They waved and fluttered handkerchiefs from sidewalk, window and rooftop. In a few brief moments an audacious British pilot (Flight Lieut. A. K. Gatward) had transformed the week's sad anniversary into a day of excitement and hope...
...could reach, with vistas of more schoolteachers beyond, to the very confines of Memorial Hall. There was a young, slender one, pretty, but wide-eyed and idealistic. Probably a teacher of modern languages in some high school. And a plumpish one opposite her, with sad blue eyes set in a still young face, but with a few long gray hairs. Just beginning to realize that she's never going to get married, Vag thought. Vag knew from his days in the seventh grade what she would get to be like some day, and he glanced around for a resigned...
...down the mouth of hell." To those whose kids had been taken from them and evacuated to the country it was good to hear of mass evacuations from Cologne, Aachen, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Mainz. To those who had seen their St. Martin-in-the-Fields smashed it was sad but good to hear of Jerry's St. Maria im Capitol being pocked...
...Chinese, who invented fireworks, will not shoot any off on July 4, 1942. That is to be the sad day, announced China's Central News Agency last week, when the rocket-swift, pinwheel-precise American Volunteer Group ceases to be a unit of the Chinese army and becomes a part of the U.S. Army Air Forces...