Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary General Joseph Avenol of the League of Nations onetime U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson cabled last week from his Manhattan law office: WHILE DEEPLY APPRECIATING THE HONOR CONFERRED BY THE NATIONAL GROUPS WHICH HAVE SUGGESTED MY CANDIDACY FOR THE WORLD COURT, I REGRET TO SAY THAT IT IS QUITE IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO ACCEPT THIS NOMINATION. With Statesman Stimson thus eliminating himself, the way was open for the League Assembly to elect a jurist against whom it could not well be argued that he was "political" and narrowly represented his country's interests...
...last make complete statements of his reform program and of his budget policy; but he does not reverse himself on fundamental questions of executive power or economic policy. Once Mr. Lippmann favored the League of Nations-- that was long ago, in the hopeful twenties. Now he swallows without regret the Senate's rejection of the World Court, and sees withdrawal from European entanglements as the sound American policy for the present. His articles on international affairs are small in bulk, considering the series of erlscs that began in Europe in March, 1933. They, like the other places, show...
...some time and the point at issue was whether or not there was a recurrence of the original infiltrating glioma. This shall ever remain unsolved on account of the failure of the people to grant us permission to examine the brain after death. It shall always be our regret that this very unique case could not have been completely reported...
...INTERRUPT GROUCHO. I SPOKE IN PUBLIC LAST YEAR IN PORTLAND WHEN I ASKED FOR A RAISE IN SALARY BUT I DON'T THINK ANYONE HEARD ME. I MAKE A PRACTICE OF SPEAKING EVERY TIME CHICO MAKES A GRAND SLAM, SO YOU CAN LOOK FOR ANOTHER SPEECH IN 1937. REGRET I CAN'T GET ZEPPO IN THIS WIRE...
...bottle-thrower, knocked him flat. Greatly upset was Bandleader Vallee to discover later he had smacked the wrong man, Moffet Dunlap, scion of a wealthy Toronto family. To the Dunlap estate he hastily sped, apologized. Mumbled he: "I didn't hit him very hard. I greatly regret the whole affair...