Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course of my tour here at Harvard, I have been confronted with every kind of a problem from the anxious twitchings of an expectant father popping into the office at regular five minute intervals for news of "that phone call," to the sad lament of a jilted romeo whose best girl forsook his unpredictable Navy Blue Baker for the consistent khaki of an Army Officer. Because I have lent a patient ear, and have even, upon request, given my Yeomanly advice, I have heard myself referred to on occasion as "Mr. Anthony," Concerning this last tribute, of which I must...
...Bulky, sad-eyed, drawling Judge Vinson, 53, is a first-rate authority on the U.S. tax laws, which he can quote, provision by provision, with all the "hereinafters" properly included, in a dazzling display of mnemonics. As a Kentucky Congressman for 14 years, he rose so fast as to threaten the seniority system. His special technique is to arm himself with such a mastery of the facts at issue that he can gently but thoroughly demolish the opposition. A kind, solid and reassuring citizen, he became last week the best and most important new face in the Washington...
...Said Mississippi's drawling, red-haired William M. Colmer: "The sad and sorry spectacle of the House. . . bringing up an issue calculated more than anything else to bring about disunity. I know that you have gotten your orders from John L. Lewis, from Earl Browder, from the Association for the Advancement of Colored People . . . and from the First Lady of the Land...
...Well, Shad," I said. (His name is Sultan Shad Hirant but I call him Shad for shirt) "What have you got on the ball today? Why so sad? You look as if somebody had stolen your last wife...
...week it was clear that the five-month-old British attempt to retake the west coast of Burma had ended in disheartening failure. As the troops and supply columns plodded through paddy fields and low hills over dusty military roads built by their own engineers last winter, they were sad proof that the British Indian command still had not learned the lessons taught by the Japanese jungle fighters in their invasion of Burma 16 months...