Word: poignantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit Free Press last week Daniel Carbone, a shoemaker, telephoned a strange story: three months before, a well-dressed couple had left 16 pairs of good-quality shoes with him to be repaired, had never returned to pay his $17.05 bill and claim the shoes. Sensing a poignant mystery, the Free Press next morning frontpaged a photo of the mysterious shoes, wondered whether the owners had perished in the S.S. Noronic's ill-fated voyage from Detroit to Toronto (TIME, Sept. 26). But by nightfall the Free Press picture had produced the footwear's flesh & blood owner...
Stewart also manages a poignant conclusion: one by one the old American survivors die off, and Ish, an antique god whose scepter is a hammer, is left alone with the new generation. One day through the fog of years he sees a half-naked savage standing respectfully before him. "Are you happy?" he quavers. "Things are as they are," the savage replies in puzzlement, "and I am part of them." The Last American passes his scepter to the savage, and dies, murmuring with the grasses and the winds and with Ecclesiastes: "Men go and come, but earth abides...
...poignant little fräulein of a song, German-born Lilli Marlene had Axis and Allied troops alike seething and sighing over her during World...
...shoestring documentary film, which audience enthusiasm boosted into national distribution, is the poignant Story of a young Negro...
...Rootless Family. Eleanor Roosevelt's first installment does have some of the rambling, gossipy quality of a club-car conversation on a long train ride. But from it emerge poignant flashes of the confusion of life with a man who had also married destiny. "As I saw it," she wrote of her reactions to FDR's first election as President, "this meant the end of any personal life for me." She blames her children's early unsuccessful marriages on the fact that in all its peregrinations the family was "not really rooted in any particular home." Surprisingly...