Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even under existing conditions, Messrs. Roosevelt and Hull should have been able to draw from the pork-barrel a better appointment than that of the present tobacco-minister to Canada. Doubtless they now regret their choice. For by his outspoken attack upon Germany Mr. Cromwell has placed the State Department in a most embarrassing position; many hearers will take Cromwell's outburst as reflecting official American views. But the ambassador's pipe contains only ashes. "How easy," he cries, "it is for unthinking people to proclaim that what happens in Europe is no concern of theirs. . . . How easy to shut...
Explaining that the Pudding will henceforth use only union help, John S. Parker '41, president of the Pudding Theatricals, said "Stan Brown has a fine band and we very much regret that he won't be able to play...
...this point, "reasonable men may differ." But there can be no disagreement about the desirability of purely cultural productions like tonight's. Those who remember with regret the blackout of German culture which World War I produced might well show their appreciation to the Modern Language Committee by visiting the U. T. tonight, and there's always Barbara Stanwyck...
...would have worshiped it fast enough." Dr. Orchard became associated with a Society of Free Catholics, obtained holy orders from an irregular but valid source, the Syro-Nestorian Church. He finally entered the Church of Rome in 1932. When he was ordained anew, in 1935, he had but one regret: he found it difficult to "detest" his former faith, as required in the oath of abjuration...
...Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, known as the,"red dean" because of his pro-Soviet sympathies, told a meeting of the Russia Today Society in London: "I regret the invasion of Finland and wish the Soviet Union had not done...