Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus last week, in the overcrowded obituary column of the Times, smart Londoners read with regret of the end of "Little Fortune," the genial and popular headwaiter who for years had greeted them at banquets at the Savoy. A short, bald, smiling man, he looked not unlike Benito Mussolini. But Headwaiter Picchi's hatred for Mussolini cost him his life...
Being an alert reader of your columns, I regret to find an overdose of letters written to you expressing blatantly a pro-Nazi, or at best a pre-war type of Irish, hate for Britain and its defenders. Let there be no mistake about it, such attitudes are contrary to America's best interests, and carry with them the seeds of distrust and discord concerning our Government. A person is either for democracy or he isn't-there is no compromise stand...
...read with much interest your story on Henry Ford. Regret to find it shot through with the poison of factionalism. Are you making a bid for more readers among labor? Naturally, that will increase your profits. Let's be sincere. Cut out your attitude of cynicism and knife throwing...
What this all adds up to is that Mr. Hicks is correct in saying that the British, though they fight for reasons of self-interest, are doing more to defeat Nazism than--say, the Progressive editors. Yet withal one may still regret, as do the editors, that we have become so bundled up with Britain. Certainly the defense drive has carried with it anti-laborism and undemocratic hysteria; certainly the dollar-a-year men are making every penny count in the defense of their class interests; certainly the American Century is not an epoch most democrats would enjoy living...
Well, the much-heralded, long-awaited recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis is out at last, (Victor, two volumes, Albums M758 & M759), and it is with regret that I report it to be an enormous disappointment. Granted the extreme difficulties posed by a choral work, nothing can justify the arrogant carelessness of a recording which, for all intents and purposes, has been thrown together without the slightest pains taken either in actual recording or in subsequent manufacture. Nothing indicates that the engineers who made the recording attended any rehearsals or had done any experimenting beforehand. The result of bad placing...