Word: mournfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 27, 1882 the bell on the Unitarian Church in Concord tolled seventy-nine strokes, for Raiph Waldo Emerson had died. Well might Concord and all New England mourn, for that death marked the high tide of New England's leadership in the world of belles lettres. Hamlin Garland has told of the change. But Emerson was the flesh and blood of America's first native literature, and as such he has become a myth, godly, mysterious, and sacred. Moderns do not read Emerson much, perhaps because they fear the myth, perhaps because they cannot understand his strength...
...every reporter is springing with ready wit and just brimming with the jargon of the press. They aren't at all, they are just fat, middle-aged men who sit around and never think of rushing off to a fire with flying hair and their coats half on. I mourn the passing of the old time newspaper man who always speaks past the door man and turns up in the star's dressing room fully dressed as a chorine. Give me the good old days...
...Habbe cliff-dwellers Seabrook found everything topsy-turvy. A thief is punished with death, for they argue that if he steals once he will do it again, and as no one keeps his valuables locked up, stealing must be kept down. But if a man commits murder they all mourn with him, then he departs on a three-year exile. When he comes back the murdered man's nearest relative and the murderer's next of kin procreate a child, who is given the murdered man's name; then they call quits...
...matter of such vital importance, when the first encroachment on inviolate ground sets a precedent for future invasions, it will not do to sit by and idly mourn the passing of the Lampoon. There is an issue here which is larger than the immediate question. Those who desire the tradition of freedom at Harvard to be maintained will have to wage an unflagging campaign against this suppression. By whatever legitimate means possible, the former status of the Lampoon must be restored...
...would set off some $4,000,000 of firecrackers, sparklers, roman candles, skyrockets, aerial bombs, pinwheels, squibs, flares, torpedoes, etc. etc. in celebration of Independence Day 1930; in the good old days, a $4,000,000 Fourth of July would have been a very sad Fourth indeed. Fireworks men mourn the time when a piece of punk in the outfield of a baseball park would bring to life a fire portrait of "Theodore Roosevelt, Our President" and cause great huzzahs to shake the bleachers...