Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idealists to be forced into the sceptic's position, nostrils dilated at the unpleasant aroma of a rat; but their hard business heads suspect that "managed currency" is just another slogan for that hardly defined but always suspicious phenomenon: inflation. The President is coming face to face with the sad fact that farmer and banker are betting on very different horses with no hope of a tie-race...
...Bowery (Twentieth Century). For his first production since leaving Warner Brothers last spring, Darryl Zanuck did what any smart producer might have tried but what very few could have carried off. From the sad look that comes into Wallace Beery's piggish eyes when he examines Jackie Cooper, to the sofa-pillow figure popularized by Mae West. Zanuck put in practically everything that cinema audiences have particularly patronized for the last two years. As a framework, he had Howard Estabrook and James Gleason fabricate a picaresque story about rival saloonkeepers on Manhattan's famed Bowery, just before...
...Well, it was sad, in a sad, sentimental sort of way, to peer up through the ropes of the scaffold and compare the Loughran and the Sharkey of that moment with, the boys as we knew them when Loughran used to be called the pretty one, He started fighting at the age of 15, which was 16 years ago, an uncommonly handsome, upstanding kid with the poise of a statue and nice teeth and hard, flat belly with the muscles laid over one another like the sections of an armadillo's shell...
Other books : Run Sheep Run, Hunky, The Earth Told Me, In Krusack's House, Sad Indian...
...pages of a great modern newspaper are like a thoroughfare where walk thousands upon thousands of sad, merry, desperate, frivolous, austere human beings. . . . Here and there one will pause an instant and say something that touches the heart of even the most habituated builder of that thoroughfare, as when this poor man in the moment of death thought of the 'S. F. Examiner . . . and ... a very dear little lady...