Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War I, a group of us followed the verger through the vast spaces of St. Paul's. When someone mentioned the Gloomy Dean, the verger said firmly: "'E hain't the Gloomy Dean; 'e's the sad hop-timist...
...read in the Sabbath service] ... I know some of you are asking, 'But why is a return to true Judaism so important?' I will tell you why. Because 2,000 years ago the Jews brought their message to the world and Christianity was the result. But the sad truth is, gentlemen, that it didn't take. For if we had a truly Christian world today ... we would not need Judaism so badly. Gentlemen, the whole thing must be done again. The Jews must again bring their message of love and peace and dignity to the world...
...sad-faced De Gasperi quickly asked the Chamber to suspend, then drove 40 miles to the summer home of President Luigi Einaudi to report his defeat and submit his resignation...
...other threads come in to liven the black field of one man's struggle. There is the rowdy good comedy of the soldiers' night out at the "New Congress Club." There is the sweet-sad story of Frew's love for a warmhearted doxy with visions of respectability. (Where the book bluntly called the girl a whore, the film manages to make the point by including her in some of the most realistic brothel scenes ever splattered on the face of the screen.) There is by contrast the fierce meeting of First Sergeant Warden and the captain...
From John L. Lewis' headquarters came only an Olympian snort: "The mountain labored and brought forth a Moody." But even Lewis could not laugh off the sad facts of how high-priced coal is being squeezed out of the market by oil and gas. Coal production has dropped from 630.6 million tons in 1947 to an estimated 440 million tons this year. The industry's 440,000 miners averaged only 3.3 days' work last week, but in the southern mines some worked less than two days...