Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such criticism did not ruffle Happy. "Isn't that a sad thing?" he beamed. "It all depends on whose ox is gored. We simply had the longest horns, and we did the most goring. Politics, you know, gets a little rough, and if you can't stand the gaff, you better get out of the game...
...plight of 14 bachelor grad students living in William James Hall this summer is indeed a sad one. An overflow of summer school males into the graduate dormitories has brought about a policy of "a few must suffer for the sins of many." In this case the sin is merely one of overcrowding, but the grad students in question are still suffering...
...Blues has the tone of truth. Whether it is Singer Holiday's own style or Journalist-Friend William Dufty's professional hand, the book's deadpan manner is a little chilling. No matter how it is told, hers is a chilling story. Billie sings a sad, sad song...
...Merthyr fell back on no less an authority than Fowler to prove that an hotel would be hopelessly old-fashioned-but to no avail. When the debate was over, the ans won out. Said aman Lord Merthyr of an-man Lord Faringdon, an Etonian like himself: "It is rather sad to think that the noble Lord and I should have been educated in the same place, and at the same time, and that 40 years later we should come here to differ upon this question...
...ever a time when young ladies should wear trousers-the fact is that many are wearing them. Whatever they may lack in dignity anc comeliness, they are modest. It is the style, however, and we cannot bring ourselves to condemn it, although it is often comic, unladylike, and even sad . . . let fashion reign where she can, but let reverence be the test in church...