Word: saddest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Segal had been selected by Richard Rodgers to co-author a new musical with him. The collaboration produced a musical which was indeed announced in The New York Times but unfortunately it never opened because the rights were lost in a protracted legal battle. "That was one of the saddest moments of my life, the fact that I could've written a whole show with Richard Rodgers and never see it take the stage." Still the abortive attempt gained him enough notoriety to inspire the plea from Big Al to save the film Yellow Submarine proved to be more than...
Popular tastes, inflationary economics, the scissors and blue pencils of outrageous editorial fortune, all conspire against topnotch depravity. In addition, journalism brings more actual horror into the home than gothic tales could ever manage. The threshold of shock keeps rising, and with it that numbness characteristic of the saddest of all monsters, the zombie...
...What makes me sad is the national waste! Thousands of qualified potential doctors who were never educated, thousands of potential lawyers who were never admitted to the bar, thousands of excellent teachers who never got Ph.D.s, and saddest of all, thousands of women who have been kept in jobs which they have outgrown and whose wisdom and gifts have never been utilized...
...have heard and will hear a lot about letters. Letters, letters, letters. In these you will find the saddest part of this case, believe me. Boyd Douglas. I think he is a very sad case. He's been in trouble all his life. The U.S. Government in its majesty did not deign to tell you much about this man's background. I think he's made lying a way of life...
...coming of high-heeled shoes and shoulder purses for men, it seemed impossible that the ladies would not strike back. Now they have: in the gilded salons of Manhattan, London and Paris, the flouncy belles of yesteryear are turning out in man-tailored jackets, fly-front trousers and-saddest of all-the plebeian cravat...