Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called a "big-bellied coward" in 1931), the voters found him irresistible. In last week's run-off election, Louisiana gave him the greatest vote ever polled by one candidate-with 44 of 1,878 precincts still to be counted, his total was 422,766. Sam Houston ("Sad Sam") Jones, the "good government" candidate who had beaten Earl for the governorship in 1940 and broken the back of the old Huey Long machine, got only...
...human implications of truth are tragic, he does not condemn the pursuit of happiness which modern civilization, more than any other, has legitimatized. But he implies that the pursuit of happiness loses measure, just as optimism loses reality, if neither is aware of what Wordsworth called "the still sad music of humanity." And he gives a discipline of mind and a structure of meaning to the tragic cry of Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno: "A Miserere sung in a cathedral by a multitude tormented by destiny has as much value as a philosophy...
...taught art. Nowadays he makes a modest living from his painting, but it is his early pictures that sell. Sloan himself looks back on his "Ashcan" oils with an equal mixture of nostalgia and pride. "Young people won't realize," he says mildly, "how sweet . . . sweet and sad Manhattan was before Prohibition. The new skyline looks like a broken comb. We're the dirt between the teeth, unfortunately. And who wants to paint a street all strewn with automobiles...
...city in turn. Last week, she was in love with Manhattan-its Philharmonic ("It leefts"), its Automats, its Empire State Building. If Nicole had her way-no matter where she was-she would give a concert every night. "I am never nervous. Only very, very happy. And very, very sad when it is over...
Rather unfortunately, too, the show puts its best foot forward too fast: its best dance and its one good ditty come in the first 15 minutes. After a wonderfully lively dance sequence opening, Comedienne Walker bawls out the sad saga of a little nobody-much...