Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatly regret that my brief statement of the purposes of the new field should have been accompanied by headlines and preamble which were contrary to fact, and by an editorial which was, to say the least, misleading. Very truly yours, Ralph Barton Perry...
When Lincoln was President and Walt was a rubber-stamp clerk in the Indian Office, Lincoln had already read Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," and expressed pleasure in them, although chastening his praise with regret at veiled allusions of the lines. Later Whitman was pointed out to Lincoln, who said: "Well, he looks like a man." These are practically all the ties with Whitman from the Lincoln side...
...editors of the CRIMSON regret that the issue of yesterday was slightly late in reaching its subscribers. The annual feat of spiriting away the first edition to be run off the presses, made a second issue necessary, and this naturally caused some delay yesterday...
...been unfortunate. Within its limited resources it has done what it could, but quite realizes the lack of humor it has displayed in changing, and making delition of, the favorable portions of the reviews of the various issues which it has printed in its pages. The CRIMSON can only regret its misguided efforts, and when one is confronted with twenty pages of such finished and wholesome good humor, he can only express the hope that the CRIMSON will heed the words spoken to the Woman Taken in Adultery and "go and sin no more...
Pondering these facts, last week, seasoned travelers felt a twinge of regret that efficient, Fascist Carabinieri will now go to tidy up unspoiled, unmodernized Sardinia. Romance abides there, not principally among banditti, but in the very air and infinitely varied scene...