Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Roundly cheered by the striplings of Birkenhead School last year he dropped one last pearl of oracular wisdom: "While you are young, cultivate the habit of industry. I regret that I never...
...Clemenceau," said his physician recently, "I must prescribe a remedy prepared in the U. S. which I believe will prove efficacious but which I regret to tell you is markedly expensive...
...that these charts show twice as many alumni givers as public givers but an average public gift 75 per cent, higher than the average alumni gift." Who are these public givers who play so "important a giving part"? Deponent sayeth not. Yet they can only be successful men who regret their own lack of an alma mater elder members of that new group of Americans who are so largely the cause of the need of more endowment. If confirmation of this were lacking, it would be supplied by the fact that "the appeal for stadia" so potent with the loyal...
...preach a doctrine of struggle toward the unattainable, to suggest a departure from the paths of indolence and case--that is to play the hypocrite. For in this case as in many others the precise caption is--"Aren't we all?" But one can regret that in this great number of graduates from these many American universities and colleges there will be so few who will strive, not as a moth for a star, because the moth never does see the star, but as vigorous, vital human beings toward the high hills of existence which neither a contented faculty...
...Underwood: "I was sure of that and therefore I excluded my friend from Arkansas. ... I always try to be candid with my friends, and I am not afraid to say what I believe.* I have played the game of draw poker. I regret to say I am not an expert. That has been forcibly illustrated to me. The old game of draw poker has certain manifest rules and regulations as to what is the highest hand. I believe it is called a straight flush...