Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Gloria realizes that she loves him. It is typical of John O'Hara's humor, as well as a sign of his understanding of his people, that in the depths of his pity and distress Eddie can only murmur nonsensically, "The melancholy Dane has come, the saddest of the year...
...victims of fate perhaps the saddest is the upperclassman who has failed to gain admittance to a house. Refused entrance at the very gates of heaven he is forced to wander alone and unwanted through eternity. Even more of a misfit than the long-forgotten commuters, his presence is hardly recognized by the university which he alleges to be his alma mater...
...voyage (TIME, June 10). They walked off the Champlain at Havre last week and for two days most of her 670 passengers were fed and bedded in Havre hotels at French Line expense. Meanwhile the men's leaders wrangled in Paris with Minister of Merchant Marine William Bertrand, saddest man on the Normandie's maiden voyage.* Since employees of the French Line are paid largely by State subsidy, M. Bertrand insisted last week that they must take the 10% wage cut State servants must take. But this sternness M. Bertrand followed by a question. Would the French Line...
This, the eighth day of the auction, marked the last and saddest chapter in the Mauretania's career. Her furniture and paneling of oak, mahogany and walnut, in French, Italian and 18th Century English styles, were disposed of. Now up for sale were such sentimental souvenirs as lifeboats, lifebelts, steering wheel and her name itself. Lifeboats brought $31 to $101 each, the steering wheel $150. The scramble for lifebelts bearing the ship's name puffed the price to $42 each. The siren, which blared the Mauretania's way into port for 22 years as speed champion...
...promptly received the warm sympathy of the leader of Mexico's Federation of Labor, Guillermo Blauncarte, and of Arthur Brisbane's Daily Mirror which printed a strong editorial on "the saddest profession." Claiming a membership of 400 at its organization, the S. D. M. threatened boycott, blacklisting and picketing of all prostitutes who did not join by June 1. Though members of all Mexican unions must abide by an eight-hour working day, Mexican newshawks discovered that President Gonzalez was back at work last week, operating her "ship" twelve hours...