Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word, then, the general atmosphere is such that a relatively large number of those who have not yet been leveled socially by the proposed benefits of the new House plan, is tending more and more to regret its invitations to the Junior Dance. Add this to the financial embarrassment with which all Dance Committees are faced, and the further fact that social fare palatable to the most diverse tastes is rather abundant, and the reason for attempting to sustain the breath of life in a superannuated whiff from the gay nineties seems to be ill founded. (Name withheld by request...
Colleagues, pupils, and friends of John Strong Perry Tatlock, of the Class of 1896, will regret to learn of his resignation from the Faculty of the University. As Chairman of the English department, professor, and author, with a distinguished career behind him and a bright future ahead, he has served Harvard faithfully and well for four years. The Faculty of the University in general, the English Department in particular, can ill afford the departure of so eminent a scholar and educator. While deploring Harvard's unfortunate loss, the University of California must be congratulated on having acquired Professor Tatlock...
...Miller has ten children, two grandchildren. Her husband is serving his first liquor-conviction sentence. Lest any feel that Mrs. Miller had been too severely punished. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, General Secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, spoke up for Methodism. Said he: "Our only regret is that the woman was not sentenced to life imprisonment before her ten children were born. When one has violated the Constitution four times, he or she is proved to be an habitual criminal and should be segregated from society to prevent the production of subnormal offsprings."* It appeared...
Said Swope: "I have no plans. But I'll have an office uptown and the door will be open always for World men." With characteristic brutal frankness he added: "I don't know anything about Mr. Renaud. But I do feel some regret that no one was taken from the staff to be managing editor...
Admirers of much-lionized Sacha Guitry merely shrugged their regret at the failure of Charles Lindbergh, remarking that, helas, the Parisian public has even ignored, this year, the "Lindbergh Dolls," of which tens of thousands were sold last Christmas...