Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps's retirement in 1933. It was also of interest to U. S. letters, to which Johnny Berdan gave Sinclair Lewis, Stephen Vincent Benét, Thornton Wilder, Philip Barry, Walter Millis, many another notable author. Said Yale's President Charles Seymour, announcing "with regret" the professor's retirement: "The U. S. never produced a teacher more skillful in the field of English composition...
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...crime was committed and there was an arrest, and a young man was thrown into a cell. The crime was great, and the young man was just a boy, and the cell was dark. Life seemed at an end and hell became a living thing. Regret tore at every breath-but regret unlocks no doors, as the young man soon found...
...Professor Sorokin's earlier letter was not published because the Crimson did not think he intended it for publication. We regret this misunderstanding...
Music-serious music-is a profession which, to the helpless regret of music lovers as well as musicians, pays out in chicken feed. Thirty-one-year-old Paul Nordoff, angular, wirehaired, blond Philadelphian, has been better heeled than most young composers. He has won two Guggenheim fellowships worth about $4,500, took last year's $1,500 Pulitzer scholarship, is a teacher at the Philadelphia Conservatory. Composer Nordoff. who would have become a concert pianist had he not found that he was expected to study showy trash like Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, has written two piano concertos...