Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Janet Logan, a sad, sensitive young woman who has been intellectually babied until her 23 years have been reduced to adolescence, and who, at the time the story opens, is recovering after a stay in a mental hospital...
Reports Continue Incidentally, in case you've become too elated at completing this week's set of reports, here's same sad news on the remaining papers due before September 6. Industrial Management due July 30; Transportation (second job) due August 7; Procurement and Sources of Supply, August 15; second War Production report, August 23; and a final report in Foreign Resources due September...
Last Wednesday night I saw a man crack completely, and it was a sad sight. A group of students were gathered around a radio in the lab. Two of the men were working on it, and the others looked on in silent awe. I could feel a nervous electric tension in the air. Suddenly one of the students leaped upon the lab table. His face was frenzied; his voice was high and strained; and he sang (to the tune of "MacNamara's Band" which happened to be on the radio at the time) this strange unearthly song...
Last week was the climactic phase of the ASOTS stay at Harvard. It was examination week and it was clear to all that the Faculty was obtaining full revenge for the trouncing given them in baseball the previous week. It was a sad week, and it will be a sadder one when the grades come in. The only good that can be said of the past week is that it proved conclusively there are three ways to pass an examination...
...Germans sing a lot, especially with their beer. Marching to the soccer field, they thunder out "Heute gehört tins Deutschland, Morgen die ganze Welt" ("Today we have Germany, tomorrow the world"). Marching back, they sing their sad, old soldier favorite, "Ich hatt' einen Kameraden" ("I had a comrade"). Italians seem to like to listen rather than sing, are always buying more records (mainly operatic) for their phonographs...