Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard hears with deep regret of the death of Edward S. Harkness, a sympathetic and modest patron of American education for the past twenty years. At a time when the expansion of endowed universities seemed to have reached a standstill, it was Mr. Harkness's far-sightedness and generosity which made it possible for Harvard, and shortly thereafter, Yale, to institute the housing systems which have made and are making such a great contribution to undergraduate life...
...serious regret of Mencken's life is that he was not well taught in music. "Lady music teachers . . . wrecked my technic and debauched my taste." He still likes to pound the piano but, "born with an intense distaste for vocal music ... to this day think of even the most gifted Wagnerian soprano as no more than a blimp fitted with a calliope." As for Karl Czerny, standard nightmare of every child's piano lessons: "So late as 1930, being in Vienna, I visited and desecrated his grave...
...live another month.' ... At the next to the last instruction, I reminded him of the seriousness of the step which he was about to take. ... He arose from his chair, put his arm around me and said, 'Father, you're worried. You will never regret receiving me into the Church. I promise you that...
...earnings were $64,000, just about 10% of the amount needed to pay its preferred dividends. Having passed preferred dividends before, the company now owes $38.98 back dividends on its 98,700 shares of preferred. Well might Mr. Mac Farlane regret that in booming 1937 his recapitalization plan to reduce preferred requirements from $6.50 to $5.50 and buy off preferred claimants fell through because it was not completed before the bull market collapsed...