Word: lamentably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the New York Times: "Mr. White fires no guns for fascism, but he rolls ammunition for it." Said Manhattan's excitable PM: "Pernicious and irresponsible ... it might have been calculated to do the greatest amount of damage to the emerging comity of nations." Corliss Lament's top-heavily titled National Council of American-Soviet Friendship unrolled a 20-page dossier, quoting in parallel columns White and those who apparently disagreed with him. These included Churchill, Eisenhower, Roosevelt and Willkie, some of them obviously caught in mid-paragraph while making politic remarks about an ally. Sometimes N.C.A...
...remained for newly elected Cowboy Glenn Taylor, the pride of Idaho, to supply the inevitable comic relief. Gathered with his wife & children on the Capitol steps, the wide-open Senator, banjo in hand, wailed his lament. Sample verse...
...Ambassador Walter Thurston acted quickly, made a formal call on Martinez. Asked the Ambassador coldly: "What can I inform my Government?" "I lament," replied the Dictator. "I shall inform my Government," said Thurston, "that you lament." Reports of this move convinced the Salvadorian people that the U.S. stood at their side, corrected the bad impression the Ambassador made during an earlier, unsuccessful military revolt by refusing to give asylum to enemies of Martinez...
...usual (female, of course.) "Weasel" Brown and his boys took over early--and faded out likewise. Mills treated all with a "letter of Credit" which looked strangely familiar. (Get the idearrrr?) C. Harrington was there pushing Ruth Fllipetti's cousin around. Bob Gordon from Arkansas, was heard to lament, "I've been out with better girls,--but not up heah." (Ed. Note-- But, Bob, the girls wear shoes up here...
...Among the New School's sponsors: Universal Oil's Hiram J. Halle, Mrs. Thomas Lament, the First National Bank of the City of New York's Director Leon Fraser, Manhattan Lawyer Grenville Clark (Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine...