Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good band under a capable bandmaster playing a Sousa march (as the composer wrote it) or any other standard march will thrill and inspire the marching soldiers. The sad thing is that most bands never rehearse marches at all or, if they do, not as they should...
Sued for Divorce. Joseph Albert Fields, 48, sad-faced co-author of Broadway comedy-clicks (My Sister Eileen, Junior Miss), elder son of the late great Vaudevillian Lew (Weber &) Fields; by Germaine Sarlabous Fields, 40; after 14 years of marriage; in Manhattan...
...anticlimax. The U.S., by & large, greeted the collapse of Fascism's cradle with almost complacent indifference. An old New York custom sent down a brief explosion of ticker tape and torn telephone-book pages from its sky scraper windows; on Mulberry Street the sad-eyed people of "Little Italy" over came their hurt long enough to pretend to celebrate for the benefit of news photographers. But otherwise, as in the rest of the U.S., the first sharp ripple of excitement, the first burst of good feeling soon faded and died on the surface of another war-as-usual...
...keep telling you about Bowser because, despite its fame and reknown, many people consider it a hole. We hope --by pointing out the sad defects of Bowser--to elevate, in the opinions of all, the more enlightened University we attend...
Thus the Army made a neat profit of almost $700,000 on its white elephant. Except for Winner Kirkaby, who said the Stevens would be doing business in 60 days, Chicago hotelmen were not so happy. They remembered a sad Chicago maxim: nobody makes money in the hotel business when "the world's biggest hotel" (3,000 rooms) is taking in roomers...