Word: lamentably
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...Broun, Lament and Gibbons...
...Lament...
...hearing dull testimony in a Manhattan corporation case. One morning he came to court carrying typewritten sheets, which he distributed to his confreres, to all the lawyers, and the judge. On the sheets was an original composition-a poem by Sumner R. Kilmarx entitled ''The Jurors' Lament." Excerpt: The Justice nods, the jurors yawn, The hours tick away. But still the lawyers argue, And the case drags on its way. We came here in the prime of life, The cause of right to seek. But age is creeping on us As we ponder week by week...
...write editorials for the New York Herald Tribune, the newspaperman's reply would have been "Oh, yeah? Now I'll tell one." But last week Editor Walter Lippmann of the late arch-Democratic, anti-Wall Street World sailed for the Near East with Mr. & Mrs. Thomas William Lament, and announced he would join the arch-Republican Herald Tribune in the autumn...
Neither of the associations is as incongruous as it might seem. Editor Lippmann, no party man, and Banker Lament, no reactionary, are both ''middle grounders" in their professions. The Herald Tribune is heavily committed to the G. O. P. but its voice is quick and loud in criticism of its party, especially during the present Administration. Manned by alert, enterprising editors, it has made itself a daily bible for young executives as well as aging Tories. Proof in itself of the paper's enterprise was its engagement of celebrated Liberal Lippmann, who will be permitted to write...