Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sad, puzzled, torn at heart was George Norris, and he told the Senate why: "Conscription is contrary to the spirit of human freedom ... in time it will ruin democracy." Yet: "I concede that they [the dictators] would like to conquer the U. S. . . ." Yet again: he would rather "see the end come and cross the river into all eternity," than see one-half of the U. S. toiling and sweating to support the other half under arms. He could concede that conscription was "the fair way to raise an army." But he could not support conscription in peacetime, even...
...Cortege over WABC, and U. S. critics, who had not been hearing much Milhaud lately, found that Darius Milhaud could still turn a phrase of hard-bitten counterpoint as expertly as any of his contemporaries. A massive, close-knit dead march, the Cortege Funebre was imposingly militant rather than sad, made The Netherlands' fall ring with the relentless finality of doom...
Though he is usually as sad and quiet as a Chinese willow, the Gissimo sometimes flies into sudden noisy furies. The BBC report threw him into a bad one. He immediately issued an angry statement: "Should Britain try to link the question of the Burma route with the question of peace between China and Japan, this would virtually amount to assisting Japan to bring China into submission." He instructed Ambassador Quo Tai-chi to protest at the British Foreign Office. U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull issued an acid statement declaring that the closure was against U. S. interests...
...play's end the first day, it looked sad indeed for Captain Sarazen. Only Demaret & Hogan, the two Texans who have burned up U. S. fairways the past six months, came through with victory in the Scotch foursomes-i up over Sam Snead & Ralph Guldahl. Trailing 1-to-3, the "leftouts" took on their singles assignments with grim determination. Even Captain Sarazen went into the fray. But the best they could do was split the day's matches with the rightful Ryder Cuppers, to lose the two-day battle...
...like, as always she mixes things a little. Really though it is simple it is really sensible and it does tell you about France, it tells you what Gertrude Stein knows about France which is interesting. It is also charming of course it is charming. It is also sad because Gertrude Stein was writing when everyone in France was hopeful, she began writing soon after there was a war but before there really...