Word: sadder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long years Lamb dreamed of retiring from the East India Company and devoting his retirement to literature. But when at last the dream came true, he found it more nearly a nightmare: he was bored to tears. Mary grew madder, Charles grew sadder-and Londoners became used to the undignified spectacle of drunken Charles being "absolutely carried home upon a man's shoulders thro' Silver Street, up Parson's Lane." nearly falling off but "by a cunning jerk" regaining his balance until "deposited like a dead log at Gaffar Westwood's." He chafed under the increasing...
...plays' titles helps explain their enormous eventual difference in tone. Mister Johnson is really, from beginning to end, the portrait of a happy-go-unlucky man, the saga of a culturally displaced person. A comedy of miscomprehension that explodes into sudden tragedy, it is all the sadder for involving no villains, no clash of good and evil, or even of conscious right and wrong...
More to Come. Still, there was no lack of gambling spirit in Las Vegas. Last week, as some hotel operators were moving out, sadder and lighter in pocket, other hotel-men were preparing to come in. Around Las Vegas bulldozers roared, and workmen toiled in the hot sun. Abuilding were three new hotels, the Martinique, Lady Luck and Fremont. Total cost...
...sort of interest in this childishly rebellious business about young love and old prejudices. The horse it flogs was flogged to death by North European intellectuals half a century and more ago; in modern Sweden unwed mothers are paid a state subsidy for the support of their children. Sadder still to report, little Ulla Jacobsson, who behaves so exquisitely with her clothes off, cannot act very well when she has them...
...puffy-faced, balding Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, 57, who at the height of his career turned out an autobiography called Along the Glory Road, traveled a sadder road in North Hollywood, smashed his sports car into a truck, was nabbed by police with a depleted bottle of gin. After slugging a Drunkometer, Tibbett was fined $263 on his guilty plea to charges of drunken driving and hitting the truck...