Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impulse to court and cajole successive French governments was past, for it had not paid. The West could never again accept France at quite the same valuation, which was a sad fact but one that the French nation had created for itself...
Damon Jr. is not much of a writer, and his resentment against his father is still so intense that at times his book is painful. But his unique story shows the sad and bitter side of a man who, to millions, has only meant a racetrack kind of gaiety, a Broadway kind of sentimentality...
Like Sorrowful in Little Miss Marker, Runyon looked sad and sour, even when joking, and little Damon always thought he was angry at him. Sometimes Runyon made shy overtures, but "his stumbling attempt to play the palsey Pop [was] so patently gawky" that Damon Jr. thought his father was just performing an unpleasant chore. Even Runyon's presents were wrong. Damon Jr. was afraid of the huge electric train and could not even lift the sailboat with a five-foot mainmast...
...hands practiced tumbling and acrobatics. A talent scout for a vaudeville team noticed Guy and offered him a job with the troupe. Guy took it, but soon decided the future looked mighty meager. Says he: "I kept seeing all those old acrobats hanging around, and they always looked so sad." Guy, who had always liked to draw, spotted an easier act in the show: the artist on stage who drew pictures of customers or famous people on request. After a successful try at this, Guy decided to leave the stage, get another factory job and go to night classes...
Often soaked to the skin, but not miserable, these hardy souls trooped doggedly to the Eiffel Tower (7,000 a day), the Louvre, Montmartre, the Arc de Triomphe and Notre Dame, determined to chalk up an enduring memory or two regardless of weather. It was a sad commentary on the Queen of Cities that her greatest attraction this year appeared to be her famed sewers, whose daily attendance was three times normal. Each day, record rows of tourists lined up at the manhole in the Place de la Concorde to take the tour through the ancient, labyrinthine tunnels in wooden...