Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many an American childhood. "Bull of the Woods" goes all round a machine shop to show that there, too, human nature runs triumphantly rampant. And Williams' slackjawed, dust-caked cowhands, Curly, Stiffy, Wes and Soda of Out Our Way, have some of his friend Will Rogers' half-sad drollery. They are the working cowhands that Williams knew as a rancher ("when I was healthy an' didn't have this big belly...
...Although 400 Seniors will leave College for the last time, not a single Freshman or returning veteran will be on hand to replace them. It might seem that now all those long-suffering forced commuters and unHoused upperclassmen might get a chance for a room along the River. But, sad to relate, that won't be the case-at least not for the great majority of these unhappy ones...
...another. Then he got a letter saying that his wife in England had a baby. He thought it over for a long time and decided the baby could not be his. So one day when recruiters for the British Free Corps came around, he joined up, "just as a sad little dog, finding himself far from home in streets where they throw things, with rain falling and the dusk thickening, will follow any passerby...
Among the plain people, ripples of cold fear ran up & down Italy's long spine. TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes cabled from Naples: "In a café on the Via Medina, I asked the sad, round-faced proprietor behind the marble counter how afraid he was. His stubbly chin trembled and the watery blue eyes seemed ready to gush tears as he said, 'Of course I'm afraid. How many Italians have to die? You Americans killed some. The Germans killed others. Now it seems we're going to kill each other. We've got poverty...
...Yale. And I'm so sad that this is the last football game. They are such a wonderful excuse for all the wonderful parties. I really hope Harvard wing-if only I didn't have to freeze watching the game...