Word: bemoaning
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...must still bemoan the fact that while the weekly editor gets the credit for running advertising of the patent medicine type, the publisher of the "patent" gets the money, for this business is grabbed by the patent-inside publisher on a volume distribution basis...
...idiomatic anecdote. But most of his intimates have been non-scholars who at first did not know or care about his prodigiousness, later liked him in spite of it. He automatically corrects conversational misstatements, but so diffidently that no one minds. Unlike most prodigies. "Ed" Hardy does not bemoan a lost youth. Says he: "If I had it to do over, I would be a prodigy again. It gave me a head start and, you see. my family never let me think of myself as unusual...
...nonsense has distorted the common picture of undergraduate life. For one acquainted with the mass of reading matter on College Life in America there is little to be observed in New Haven to strengthen the validity of the usual assumptions. "Collegiatism" as popularly conceived is heartily despised. Old graduates bemoan the passing of something known as College Spirit, while the old-Ford-rah-rah-painted-slicker figure of collegiate mythology has not been replaced by that of the passionate scholar, a new figure has arisen, drawing its life from within the confines of York and College Streets, that, with allowances...
Throughout the U. S., suburban residents have been complaining this year of what amounts to a squirrel plague, while rural citizens bemoan that squirrels are near extinction. Naturalists explain that pothunters and automobiles have slain thousands over the countryside, while squirrels in close city trees and garrets are zealously, fondly protected...
...spectacle of 13,000 Montrealers turning out for a hockey game between Harvard and McGill has prompted Canadian sportsmen to bemoan the infrequency of such international matches, and to start agitation for the formation of a hockey league to be composed of McGill, Toronto, Harvard and Dartmouth. After having subtracted the international glamor and the natural Canadian enthusiasm for the sport, the idea of closer hockey relations with Canadian teams still seems to be exceedingly worthwhile...