Word: sadder
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...instruction. His adviser, standing next to the podium, was a stumpy, balding little old man in a frayed brown suit. Once, when the little man whispered in Beecham's ear, the conductor stopped, said: "We are reminded that by this time in the work Don Quixote is sadder but wiser...
...faded Seattle Star (circ. 70,000), the two editorials were a little hard to reconcile. One ran on the editorial page. It boasted that the city had grown 33% since the 1940 census. Crowed the headline: SEATTLE'S BEST YEARS ARE AHEAD. But on Page One another, sadder editorial said that the Star would not be around to enjoy them. Bled by "terrific increases in every item" of publishing costs, the paper was folding up that...
Wiser, some sadder, and a few disillusioned, a hundred young women in the Radcliffe summer secretarial and publishing courses not only pack up shorthand notebooks for the last time at Longfellow Hall today, but also mixed impressions of the Harvard male on warm weather prowl...
...Willie Mosconi stepped nimbly about the curtain-enclosed arena in one corner of Bensinger's smoky pool parlor in Chicago. At stake: the world's pocket billiards (vulgarly pronounced pool) championship. His opponent and archenemy was Irving Crane, the champion, whose 33-year-old face was even sadder than Willie...
...fact that a strong management and a strong union hesitate to tangle, and will employ attrition only when other measures fail to secure accord; while if one party is materially weaker, it must use every weapon at its command to gain a fair contract. Congress could make no sadder error than to become impatient and destroy the balance that labor and management seem to have hit upon after years of trial and error...