Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the fog, under the warmth, the daily life of the U.S. went on-the same old life with its humdrum murders and routine tragedies, its drives in the country and its arguments about Roosevelt, its arrests and hot tempers-inhibited, half-sad and half-contented...
...Flying (Universal) is Abbott & Costello's fourth picture in ten months, their third crack at the armed forces of the U.S. Having thoroughly balled up the Army and the Navy, the slapsticky pair of onetime burlesque comedians this time tackle the Air Corps. The result is sad...
...frenzy of his search for saving values, leaped before he looked, with both hands clamped to his eyes. His yoking of "optimistic" Thomas Mann and Whittier as "primary" artists, and his belittling with "self-interest" of such men as Joyce. Eliot and Proust, left serious readers sad and alarmed. Edmund Wilson's The Wound and the Bow ($3) contained important amateur psychiatries of Dickens and Kipling...
Stockholm reports said last week that Foreign Minister Scavenius had negotiated Denmark into the Anti-Comintern Pact behind the backs of sad King Christian and other Cabinet members. When he produced his fait accompli, they at first refused to add their signatures. Then Foreign Minister Scavenius called their attention to the scowling face of Adolf Hitler...
This was the sad conclusion last week of many a defense expert. Intended as the brains of defense, SPAB has turned out to be just another feeble tentacle of the hydra-like monster. Donald Nelson, its executive director, has no vote in its councils. Moreover, Nelson has two conflicting jobs. As SPAB director he is boss of William Knudsen's Office of Pro duction Management. As OPM's priorities director, he is Knudsen's hired hand...