Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First there was Benny the Meatball, but he had run screaming into the night with five bullet holes in him. Then came "Bugsy" Siegel, but he died ignobly (of four rifle slugs) while sitting on a divan in his girl's house. After that, sad-eyed little Mickey Cohen became the undisputed boss of Los Angeles' gangdom...
...runway at Ohio's Akron-Canton airport one day this week stood a bright yellow, converted C87 that was once used by General Alexander A. Vandegrift, commandant of the U.S. Marines. Waiting for the take-off was a tall, sad-eyed man who was indeed the very model of a modern full-blown general, or admiral-or at least something mineral. His milky-blue uniform with brass buttons and bright gold stars & bars suggested considerable rank, if an indeterminate branch of service. But there was nothing indeterminate about the man inside the uniform. He was Samuel Floyd Keener...
...instinctive respect for all living creatures seemed strange to his schoolmates, and often it made him sad. ("Youth's unqualified joie de vivre" he once wrote, "I never really knew.") Twice Albert went fishing, but "the treatment of the worms . . . and the wrenching of the mouths of the fishes" were too much for him. Each night, after his prayers with his mother, he added a secret one of his own: "O Heavenly Father, protect and bless all things that have breath, guard them from all evil, and let them sleep in peace...
...Unfortunately, Irwin Shaw, who wrote the screenplay, and Director Chester Erskine, who stumbled about in surplus dialogue and plot, failed to exploit the story's skimpy elements of suspense. Take One False Step sets out to be a sprightly whodunit. After the first reel, it turns into a sad case of who cares...
...dramatic monologues and dialogues Frost never improved on these early works. One of them, "The Generations of Men," is as sad and lovely an American romance as anything of Hawthorne's; two others, "A Servant to Servants" and "Home Burial," are as torturing records of the life of men with women as New England could provide. Frost went back to farming near Franconia, N.H., and in 1924 won his first Pulitzer Prize with New Hampshire. After that the sturdy, deliberate man with the tousled head and bright blue eyes became a public figure...