Word: bewail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there's something I bewail...
Mussolini comes in for the lion's share of the ribbing. First he is shown awarding the Victor Emmanuel Fertility Cup and other similar awards to a group of buxom mass-production mothers, after which public enemy number one comes forward to bewail the fact in a variety of ingenious ways that she can produce only one at a time. Il Duce appears again, as one of the "Four Little Angels of Peace," the others being Hitler, Chamberlain, and an anonymous Jap. They all demonstrate their benevolence by treacherously and amusingly destroying one another. There is a denunciation...
Stanley remained unconsolable for the loss of his canine pal, killed Wednesday afternoon by a car which only barely missed the boy himself. Completely forgetful of his own narrow escape, he could only bewail his 'Patsy...
...last week made the Free State farmers' lot unhappier still by announcing that British imports of Irish "fat cattle" will be cut in half for the next three months, imports of Irish "store cattle" (unfattened) will be cut 121/2%. Irish live stock men rushed together in Dublin to bewail this body blow to their industry to ask harried de Valera to do something
...York Times, on the other hand, has felt called upon to reverse without warning its views of Soviet diplomacy, now terming it shamefully weak and spineless where before they thought it insidious plotting against the safety of the civilized world; the Times has gone so far as actually to bewail the lack of supporting connection between the Kremlin and the Third International). Other papers, however, have asserted with surprise and some glee that conflict is approaching and apparently not unwelcome to either government. But despite the very considerable friction which has developed over the main source of trouble (the Soviet...