Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long gone is its eminence in science, law, commerce. Islam is poor, a sad fate for the only great religion founded by a successful businessman. Islam is divided and headless, a painful fate for a religion founded by a first-rate practical politician...
...Paris, Barbara Mutton, who was refused a Mexican divorce from fourth husband Prince Igor Troubetzkoy three months ago, got gladsome news from Cuernavaca. After a private session with her lawyer, a judge had decided that the divorce was in order after all. "It was sad, but it had to happen," said Barbara, whose prince had tentatively suggested $3,000,000 as the price of freedom. "What can one expect from life? It's cruel and there is very little real romantic love left...
...Ballad of the Sad Café, by Carson McCullers. A novelette, half a dozen short stories and three novels in an impressive omnibus (TIME, June...
...mind. Author Wellman is more successful when he describes the fightingest man of his day in action, the massive bowie knife flashing, his disemboweled foes falling all about him. No one, it seems, can stand up to peaceful Jim when his dander is up. It is a sad irony that he should be lying helpless on a cot when the Alamo is stormed by Santa Anna's men on March 6, 1836. Even then he sells his life pretty dearly. Bowie's four pistols account for four Mexicans. A fifth, "the boldest of them, lay with the knife...
Appearance: Tall (6 ft. 1 in.), slim, round-shouldered, sad-faced, like a slightly healthier Harry Hopkins...