Word: regretable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...athletes must go abroad, however, there seems to be a compensation in that they will probably bring back goodly portions of the laurels with them. America has such insuperable advantages of size and abundance of material to draw from that, much to the regret of many who would see a more equal division of the spoils, it is more than likely that her unbroken string of victories will be continued. But the thrills of the contest will be as strong as ever, the tourist army will have a new objective for its interest, and the defeated competitors can look forward...
...have had the pleasure of "selling" TIME to more than one personage, among them Dr. C. C. Wu, famed representative of Chinese Nationalism. With real regret I relinquish the agency, and give up reading my favorite magazine...
...Paris, George Gershwin, flanked by Dimitri Tomkin and Vladmir Golschmann, took his bows. A Paris audience had just listened to his "Concerto in F," and they were wildly applauding its composer, soloist, and conductor. Some of the members of the audience were greatly disturbed by the bizarre joy and regret which the young Hebrew composer had put into his most ambitious work...
...given. There is a pause, a blot-out; then the grave of Nurse Cavell is flashed on the screen. In the original film, the disobedient soldier was shot dead by a German officer and the shooting of Nurse Cavell followed. Many Britishers and Americans, as well as Germans, regret that Dawn was ever filmed. It is too late now to decide whether a charming woman who helped 210 prisoners to escape should be executed for war purposes and re-executed for the benefit of cinemagoers. Most of Dawn is restrained and dignified; the performance of Miss Thorndike is sincerely beautiful...
...pictures which are sold abroad (see below) are bought by wealthy U. S. collectors. Over a long period of years, perhaps as much as $250,000,000 worth of works of art have left England for the U. S. This fact has caused sentimental Britons to feel pangs of regret and it last week caused Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, to offer caustic reproof rather than sympathy to the sentimental Britons. Wrote rich Mr. Brisbane, whose splendid homes are by no means bare of pictures...