Word: lamentably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the Council still had a respectable list. It included: Christian Gauss, dean emeritus of Princeton; Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, wife of the board chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc.; Gerard Swope, honorary president of General Electric; the Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church...
...Bright Day is a disenchanted view of 1946-style life, and a lament for the good old days when life struck a harmonious balance between work and play. Hero Gregory Dawson is a successful movie-script writer of about Priestley's own age (55); he divides his time between feverishly churning out a perfumed movie story and feverishly recalling the days when rich Yorkshire wool merchants went home to play Schubert of an evening. By the time he has written finis to his tawdry script, Dawson has also decided to write finis to his tawdry career. Henceforth, with trade...
Saltonstall, a history teacher at Exeter since 1932, was just going to bed one night when Board Chairman Thomas S. Lament and retiring Principal Lewis Perry called and took him to the Exeter Inn. There the trustees broke the news. Students heard about it at Sunday chapel. They followed him home. Exeter's cheerleader called for "nine rahs for Saltonstall," and had trouble getting it out. Bill grinned. "Just call me Salty," he said...
...Solo in Tom-Toms is a backward glance at his Colorado boyhood and bachelor days. Youth itself, he explains, is a sort of solo in tom-toms. Once he heard some Sioux Indians beating out a lament for a dead boy: Where has the young buck gone? Tell us where the long ride ends; say to us where the young buck has gone? It seemed to him "a goodbye to the West, a goodbye to youth. . . . I began to find a meaning of my own young years." Fowler trained in the same up-from-cops school of journalism...
That 1908 Wattersonianism was more of a boast than a lament. In his own rambunctious time, which lasted 50 years, Marse Henry's paper was branded as a tool of the Freedmen's Bureau, of the Gold Bugs, of the brewers and distillers. Never batting his one good eye, Watterson roared right back at his accusers...