Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Expresses "Keenest Regret...
...Fisher explained his "keenest regret" at the "situation which arose in connection with my business necessitating a decision on my part to entirely sever my connection with Harvard football". He pointed out how much he disliked to have the "appearance of quitting in the fact of last year's defeats...
...regret the discriminatory clause against Japanese in the Immigration Act of 1924. The question still remains unsettled. It should, however, be remembered that a law cannot be modified except by a law; and that under the constitutional system of the United States, the Legislature is entirely independent of the Executive. It is obvious that continuance of discussions between the two Governments at this time will not in itself serve any useful purpose. What is really important in the final analysis of the question is that the American people shall have come to a correct understanding of our people...
...Correggio, contraception, the difference between amour and amore, hypocrisy (it gangrenes gallantry), religion, cats. Little by little, they split off into pairs, these beautiful women, these men of genius. Irene became engaged to Hovenden despite his lack of dental fricatives; Calamy gave himself to Miss Thriplow and made her regret it; Mrs. Aldwinkle, rebuffed by Chelifer, went off to Monte Carlo...
...Briggs, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University. Prof. Baker, founder of the 47 Workshop, famed dramatic school, stood. Around him sat old friends-actors, stage hands, scene painters, electricians, musicians, prompters, auditors, graduates of his course. They had come to hear him express his regret that he was, of his own choice, leaving them, going away to start a dramatic school at Yale, financed by the $1,000,000 Harkness fund (TIME, Dec. 8). They had just given him a farewell dinner; now they waited for him to give them a farewell benefit performance, free...