Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madeline's pious, sad-looking mother had come from Stillwater to hold Madeline's hand; and old, lean Judge James Springer had also come from Oklahoma to help defend an old friend's flashy little daughter...
Uncle Harry (by Thomas Job; produced by Clifford Hayman in association with Lennie Hatten) is a Grade-B thriller-which, in the present sad state of Broadway, makes it one of the notable events of the spring season. Overlengthy dialogue makes the play move too slowly, overmuch plot makes it run too long. With more work (on the author's part) and less play, Uncle Harry might have come closer to being a first-rate psychological thriller; it contains a sound idea, clever characterizations, some skillful writing, and a neatly ironic tone...
...sad situation when Shuron Shurset, Kleenex, Dr. West, and other who are equally busy in these troubled times, must make patriotism real and functional. It isn't until one uses deodorants "under arms for a nation under arms" that the term so flatly defined by Mr. Webster takes on true meaning. It is only when the Mum Company asks: "Are you your own fifth columnist? Do you sabotage your personal attractiveness with underarm perspiration on short wave broadcasts?" that the word becomes utterly challenging...
...Japanese fleet cannot sail in that easily. Corregidor's guns still rule Manila Bay after five months of pounding, and no sizable enemy ship has yet slipped past The Rock. But it will be a sad anniversary, nonetheless, with the U.S. taking it instead of handing it out in Manila...
...across recently a notice advertising a jazzed-up version of Beethoven's Fifth symphony,--"Beethoven's liveliest symphony, with victory emphasized throughout"--and was inclined to consider this more a flattery than otherwise. That the jazz boys need this increasing recourse to the hoary classics at all is a sad commentary on something or other, but by their choice they usually distinguish whatever symphonic music they intend to massacre as having unusual structural or melodic strength, and the Fifth is no exception. respect for the marvelous clarity and controlled exuberance of this symphony has out ridden many interpretative storms from...