Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...north side of the new Department of Commerce Building in Washington is a corridor richly paneled in black walnut. It is called "Secretaries' row." Opening from it are three large offices. Secretary Lament's is in the centre. Assistant Secretary Julius Klein's is on the right. In the one on the left sits Col. Clarence Marshall Young, Assistant Secretary for Aeronautics...
...their ideals. By his juxtaposition and treatment of his subjects he intimates that one is as undesirable as the other, that the ideal university should not be characterized either by scholasticism or by modernism alone, but by a close correlation of the two. He adds weight to the recent lament of John Erskine in the "American Scholar" that colleges make no attempt to vitalize their inanimate culture with injections of modernity...
Back in New York Senor Olaya, now behind the back of an innocent Press, took up the real purpose of his visit?a loan. He dropped into J. P. Morgan & Co. But Mr. Lament seemed chilly. He dropped into National City Co. to see Victor Schoepperle, who had visited Colombia. But Vice President Schoepperle did not think a loan could be arranged unless Colombia adopted a "businesslike" administration. Weary of shopping about Wall Street for cash, President-elect Olaya consented to these terms, and sailed for Colombia with the promise of $20,000.000 in short term bank credits from National...
...naked personality. And the Vagabond deals with the hearts of men from which the curtain of convention has been drawn aside. Slang and swearing, as they appear to a purist, should be crystallized emotional expressions. Regarded as such, the Vagabond can only join with his distinguished colleague and lament the passing of the giant oaths...
...very deplorable thing," replied Mr. Lament quietly, "but it is the great investing public upon which these declines in every kind of bond have chiefly fallen, rather than on the banks...