Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...every month from overdoses, or are murdered. Many are in prison. He has special nightmares about Candyman. "He was a boxer like me," Ramos recalls. "He was set up trying to rip off a dealer and shot five times in the chest. The funeral was very, very sad. They put Candyman's gloves and robe on top of his coffin. When my mother and sisters saw him, they saw me lying there...
...books, memos, documents and his personal daily diary. His ignominious task: preparing yet another report on his dealings with Brother Billy's outlandish escapade as a foreign agent for the radical Arab state of Libya. Conceded Robert Strauss, the President's shrewd campaign director: "It's sad and tragic and debilitating." Added Strauss: "I'm not a Billy man. I've had about all of Billy I need...
...left the 19th century muttering about his illegitimate children by Sally Hemings, and about his nephews Lilburne and Isham Lewis, who murdered a slave on the Kentucky frontier. Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel was widely satirized as a country clod who smoked a pipe. Mary Todd Lincoln, a sad and slightly unhinged woman, went on shopping sprees that left her $27,000 in debt by 1864. Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt suffered posthumous humiliations at the hands of their own children. Seven years ago, Elliott Roosevelt wrote a book discussing his father's love affair and his parents...
...mood of Billy Bishop is constantly changing, like the surface of a lake under scudding clouds. It is sad, romantic, exultant. Billy is racked by fear, but victory is his adrenaline. One-on-one combat in the air is the last remnant of chivalry. He gets to Buckingham Palace to receive three decorations from the hand of King George V. His Majesty's first words: "Well, you have been a busy little bugger...
...death he left two collections of his essays and reviews, Poetry and the Age and A Sad Heart at the Supermarket. In 1969 The Third Book of Criticism was published posthumously. Most of his last remaining pieces are now gathered in Kipling, Auden & Co. The result, inevitably, is a jumble of scraps and remnants: a portion of Jarrell's master's thesis on A.E. Housman, articles on music, painting and sports cars, a touching tribute to War Correspondent Ernie Pyle, dozens of poetry and fiction reviews and a few pieces from Supermarket, now out of print. Slight...