Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems to me that Afrikaners have created the terror for themselves, as men so often create the monsters which eventually devour them. It was a sad day for South Africa when Malan and his program of apartheid took over her destinies . . . South Africa lost her soul when she lost Smuts...
Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart had a similar bone to pick with the Pentagon. The Army had asked Cartoonist George Baker to donate the use of his baggy, wistful comic-strip child, Sad Sack, to help the recruiting drive. Sad Sack first appeared in Yank, the wartime weekly, became so popular that he now runs in some 90 U.S. papers. With Cartoonist Baker's permission, the Army got out a comic book showing Sad Sack up against the pitfalls and pratfalls of civilian life. When he draws his first paycheck, he finds that after all the taxes...
...these words at the beginning of the century when the problems facing university students were not so pressing as they are today. Such words are a perfect definition of the ideals of mid-Twentieth Century education as well. They deserve repetition whenever secular education is irrationally blamed for the sad state of mankind and morals. They are an excellent answer to these attacks on free educational institutions--attacks which must be answered before terms like "godless" and "immoral" assume a new, broader meaning...
...chance of lasting a long, long time . . . Over in Hollywood, everything gets exaggerated, including people's ideas of themselves. We live in New York. People there are normal-sized. We aim eventually just to live in oblivion and get to the grave without confusion . . . I'm a sad man. I've been leading mourner at the death of more jokes than any man alive...
...Sad Memories. Many a middle-aged American, remembering the giddy air of 1929, thought that all this had a familiar ring. Actually, the 1951 bull market is like no other the U.S. has ever seen. Unlike 1929, when stocks could be bought for as little as 10% down, the margin requirement is 75% and most of the buying is for cash. The public has rushed in, but instead of chasing after low-priced and highly speculative "cats & dogs," it has usually bought "blue chips." Reason: the public is a lot smarter, partly because 1920's memories still linger...