Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...middle aged mothers are not pretty women nor clever but they are really nice women. The jaded temptress is flighty, miserably unsuccessful in her constant attempts to be amusing, gives the appearance of having dressed by standing under a tree which shed upon her various garments including the saddest sort of red wig but an fond she is really quite nice. To finish the summation, the youth are sophisticated, inconsiderate and no more comely than their forebears, but, you no doubt are ahead of us this time, an fond they are really nice brats. With such a group of characters...
...kennels she led two of the saddest beasts in the world, the furrow-browed bitch Champion Sarah of Barchester and Champion Huntsman. Over they went to the house, at Myrtle Grove, where the last burglary was committed. Whiffling mournfully, the leashed hounds were led to a broken window. Champion Sarah suddenly threw up her head and howled. Almost instantly both hounds were scrambling on the trail. Red-faced, hot and excited. Mrs. Sadlier pounded along, her champions nearly pulling her arms out. Up a hill they raced, through copses and hedges and across fields. Dawn was just breaking...
...lady or an author, Edith Wharton says: "Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death. . . . But I am born happy every morning...
Next day a raging blizzard whipped Dartmouth's flags flying at half-mast for the saddest day in its 164 years. Grave-faced students plodded to their classes. They talked little. Asked for a press statement, President Ernest Martin Hopkins replied. "There is nothing that can be said that can be of any comfort to anyone...
...major failings of Harvard University is the fact that not five per cent of its officers, faculty, and students realize that the Harvard Union is a Freshman dormitory as well as a Freshman dining hall. It is among the saddest of daily experiences for the gentlemen who reside there to be confronted at table by the question, "Where do you live?" Invariably the answer, "Oh, I live right here in the Union," is followed either by a look of annoyance and the words, "Come on, I don't mean where are you right at this moment but where is your...