Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cronies are Steelman Myron Taylor, Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament. Fabulous stories surround his passion for outdoor life. He owns four miles of trout stream in New York's gamey Beaver Kill, issued gold-engraved membership cards to a half-dozen friends. In North Carolina "Joe" Knapp owns Knotts Island, a 5,000-acre preserve. Becoming attached to the country and its citizenry, he spent some $500,000 to give it a school system, vast sums for roads and other improvements. Once when "Joe" Knapp and a party of friends were dashing in a sea-sled to his Canadian...
Nurse. Betty Gow took the stand after Col. Lindbergh. As a prosecution witness the 30-year-old Scotswoman added little but tears to Attorney General Wilentz's case. With Counsel Reilly, however, she was pert, not teary. Quizzed about "Red" Johnson, onetime sailor on Thomas Lament's yacht with whom Nurse Gow had been friendly the summer before the kidnapping, she admitted that she had gone to a New Jersey roadhouse with him. The most valuable bit of testimony for the defense ferreted out of Nurse Gow by Counsel Reilly was that on the day of the kidnapping...
...Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament declared: ". . . The banks of the country generally are in a strong position...
...past commanders of the American Legion - Hanford MacNider, Louis Johnson and Henry Stevens. Between them and the first squad of marching men glided a shiny limousine. On its back seat, with a plush robe across their knees, were to be seen John P. Morgan and his partner, Thomas William Lament, deep in solemn talk...
Where is there lament in the fact that these professorial geniuses have left Germany? If the Nazis had killed them all, Professor Wiener's complaints would be in better order. The world has lost nothing. Harvard and Tech are perhaps guiltiest of all schools in buying outstanding talent from other institutions. Would Professor Wiener dare say that the men who replace these professors in the dispossessed schools are "jealous little men who hide themselves under the skirts of the cloak of scholarship?" No, Professor, we do not believe that after the few Jews and liberals depart the German faculties that...