Word: saddest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...saddest sight is to see crosseyed, disillusioned Poonsters trying to find their building; but kind hearted Adams House men have been of infinite help. Still, no one as yet has tipped the color blind Lampoon editors off about the dastardly deed and they have been only making matters worse by getting their hands and feet in the creamy...
Airman's Tragedy. One of the saddest of military accidents occurred two and a half years ago when two Naval ensigns, "flat-hatting" in a trainer, hit and beheaded a woman working in an Alabama field. Both youngsters were cashiered, sent to prison. But the worst "fooling" accident yet was at Palm Springs, Calif., last October, when nine passengers and the crew of three died in the crash of an American airliner clipped in flight by an Army Lockheed B34. CAB investigated the crash, reported that the "probable" cause was the "reckless and irresponsible conduct of Lieut. William...
Wartime variation on the saddest words of tongue or pen, as reported by Washington Post Columnist Jerry Kluttz...
...torn, tattered bodies were borne to the dance hall in neighboring Mullaghduff, where there was to have been a dance that night. From villages miles around the women came, with black shawls over their heads, to keen beside the coffins. This was the saddest wartime tragedy that had come to neutral Eire...
Badgered Brewster. For the Mirandas, the Brewster deal was the saddest of all. In 1939, brother Ignacio decided that Brewster's export arrangements were 1) feeble, 2) expensive. Brewster paid a 3% ''finder's fee" commission on all business, plus 10% to the resident foreign agent, but had almost no foreign business...