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...alas! some people can never profit from the mistakes of others. For instance, Weeping Walter Blatt, who rushed to take over the empty place in the Troubadors, returned the next morn a sadder and a wiser...

Author: By Larry Hyde, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/20/1945 | See Source »

Although a bit inadequate, we toss in our bit of confusion by suggesting that: sanitation difficulties, not Dutch tile expeditions, are responsible for the demolition work; and that a jealous Ibis, not hunger-maddened 'Poonsters, did in the dove, a sadder and flatter bird...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sadder, Flatter Dove Crawls From Zany 'Poon Goings-On | 9/29/1944 | See Source »

Sebastian returned to England sadder and wiser. Unlike the unhappy, ever-floating Eustace, he intended to follow the "divine white light" before it was too late. When World War II got under way, Sebastian naturally decided that one of the "indispensable conditions of peace" was the establishment of a single religion that could be shared by East and West alike. "It is only by deliberately paying . . . our primary allegiance to eternity that we can prevent time from turning our lives into a pointless or diabolic foolery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Huxleyan Heaven and Earth | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...analyzing its way through the 1,381,681 major crimes committed in the U.S. in 1943, had even sadder news about girl criminals. The number of under-21 girls arrested leaped 130.4% over 1941. Biggest jump was in the "V-girl" area of "amateur" prostitution and saloon-going, which FBI politely calls "offenses against public decency." But there was also a 30% increase in girl burglaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Boy into Criminal | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

This column shall be our swan-song--made all the sadder by the knowledge that sadder by the knowledge that our junior counterpart has retired from the field for reasons best known to himself. This means that the Supply corps School will no longer have a voice in the SERVICE NEWS. The Junior battalion should take it upon itself to find someone to do the job. Even if the various class morale officers just passed in weekly notes it would be better than nothing...

Author: By J. D. Wilson, | Title: NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL | 10/15/1943 | See Source »

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