Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regret deeply." said President de Valera in the Dail last week, "that I should have given publicity to a falsehood. I tender my apologies to Deputy Mulcahy...
Cracked back Mrs. Hammond: "We regret, Senator, that we must offend again. We are inexperienced in the field of practical politics but we are not ignorant of the inactivity of your committee. . . . Your committee has kept your investigator in Washington, permitting him to do nothing ... has frittered away its scant appropriation . . . has attempted to discredit the record by representing that your authority is limited under the resolution. That resolution is immeasurably broader than the resolution which made a record that threw Vare and Lorimer out of the Senate. . . . Speaking of contempt, Senator, why do you refuse to proceed against Long...
...inclined to regret that Mr. Agar felt compelled to report with great detail on the early lives of his subjects and hence to compress his commentary into a meagre allotment of pages. But no reader can escape the fact that the author does keen justice to his characters. "Jemmy" Madison, for example, "the withered little apple-John," was "small, quiet, precise... In print he had authority and effectiveness; but he had neither of these qualities as chief executive of the nation;" William Howard Taft was a "genial, unambitious man who never got over the surprise at finding himself president;" Wilson...
When we had opportunity to appraise the energies of Colonel Charles R. Apted '06 yesterday afternoon, we were somewhat inclined to regret our previous animadversion re Spanish Trunk labels. It was a joy to behold Harvard's Harried Hawkshaw grouping Newsmen on the front stops of Weld Hall so that F. D. R. Jr. could escape by a back way. There were no interviews, no posed photographs. Even a roommate avoided the stigma of borrowed glory by holding a large cardboard over his face...
...Chamber of Commerce and of Chicago's National Bank of the Republic (merged in 1931 with Charles Gates Dawes's Central Trust to form Central Republic Bank & Trust, which is slowly being liquidated) last week filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. Said he: "I regret the necessity for this action. . . . As a large holder of bank stocks and in a position where the liquidation of these holdings would have had a serious effect on the general banking situation in Chicago, I found ... it was impossible for me to liquidate my indebtedness...