Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After thus dragging in and blaming the U. S. in part for The Deal, Mr. Baldwin closed his address by refusing to reveal The Deal's terms, though they came out three days later (see col. 1). Piously observed the Prime Minister, "I have seldom spoken with greater regret, for my lips are not yet unsealed, but were these troubles over I would make a case and I would guarantee that no man would go into the lobby against...
...convened to make sure that no explosives had been hidden there. Parliament opened quietly with the Lord High Chancellor, Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham, reading the King's Speech of grieving George V. This began: "My Lords and Members of the House of Commons, I deeply regret I am not addressing you in person...
...smoother and more conventional in form. His themes are often familiar-his Boston poems include a "Charles River Nocturne," glimpses of the Common-and he writes of autumn woods and winter nights. A dominant note in his poems is loneliness, but it is a loneliness the poet accepts without regret, and it is enriched with memories of childhood, with grave and unpretentious reflections on destiny and death, with flashes of warmly human or amusingly discordant scenes that the world offers for his attention. Cool and detached, the poems give little evidence of intellectual curiosity. Robert Fitzgerald can write vividly...
...well-directed routines. They can be compared, not unfavorably, to the Rockettes of New York and this weeks sets also deserve high praise. A Mexican singer, whose microphone technique reminds one of a jumping bean and a clever pair of eccentric dancers fill out the bill, which, we regret to say, is not up to the Metropolitan standard...
...Norah Borges... By Lurcat, reinder horns growing out of earth tall as trees; a leaf large as a mountain, "Paysage Romantique"... One steer's head, one girl's head, a railroad track, one prairie, in oil and framed, "Paysage Andalou," by Jose Moreno Villa... And it was with profound regret that the Vagabond saw his friend's portrait, Edwin Arlington Robinson, taken down and replaced with a portrait which resembles the Vagabond's hag-in all respect dear women-and simply called, "Head of Woman", by Otto Dix. Gentlemen, don't miss this one. The Vagabond shudders at the thought...