Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...football, criticizing the methods of playing of the Princeton team. I venture to write you this letter. Of course I have no right to ask you to refrain from publishing anything, but I think it is proper to say that all the authorities of Harvard University would deeply regret the publication of anything derogatory to Princeton, or its football team; and that we should be very grateful it you saw fit to withdraw the article in question. Very truly yours, (Signed) A. Lawrence Lowell...
...with deepest regret that I learned of the publication of the Hubbard article. The only comforting thought which both Harvard and Princeton men got out of the discontinuance of athletic relations was the assurance that at least it would end the recriminations which had unfortunately crept into the relations of the two universities. Now it seems even that result is to be denied...
...member except myself received from your institution of hire learning a circular letter advising him that a review in that subject would be held at a specified time this week. Incidentally, the letter also urgently advised the gentlemen to take advantage of this offer or they would live to regret it, but that after all is neither here nor there. The point at issue is that I am deeply insulted and mortified that my name is not on the register of those fit to be invited to parties of that nature, and intend to show you that I deeply resent...
Cecile Sorel said she thought Florence Reed and Ethel Barrymore were two of America's greatest actresses, that Gloria Swanson was a great artist, and Charlie Chaplin a genius. "America has the greatest cinema in the world," she stated. "My one regret is that the art of the great Duse is not perpetuated by the films...
...occupied Rhineland. The Court acquitted the accused, Lieutenant Rouzier, of manslaughter on the grounds that he had fired in self-defense when attacked by the Germans with canes. Said the Lieutenant with cold formality in speaking of the man he killed: "If I have committed reprehensible acts I regret them. I likewise regret if they have reflected on my country, my colonel and my regiment." The two Germans wounded by Lieutenant Rouzier were then sentenced respectively to two years and two months of imprisonment for threatening to assault him with their canes before he fired upon them. Four other Germans...