Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion can certainly be attributed to the vigor and spirit with which the new rowing system has been installed. The days when five different types of stroke were being taught on the Charles, and when fall crew practice was less important than spring football have definitely passed, to the regret of none. The character of the winter training which comes to an end today is indicative of a new policy that is intended to develop available material into the finest possible crews...
Amelita Galli-Curci sang farewell. Thunderous applause mixed with tears of regret at her departure-not so much for her brilliant coloratura airs, bedizened with strings of pearly scale-flights, as for the glamor which the purity of her tone cast over her simplest encore-ditties. That was perhaps most people's idea of what the "song of the nightingale" should...
...conscious that you have tendered it [the resignation] from a sense of public duty. It is with regret that I am to part with...
...practically aimed at the Japanese. Secretary Hughes last week in a letter to the Immigration Committee, pointed out that this contravened our treaty with Japan. He added: "The Japanese are a sensitive people and unquestionably would regard such a legislative enactment as fixing a stigma upon them. I regret to be compelled to say that I believe such legislative action would largely undo the work of the Washington Conference on Limitation of Armament, which so greatly improved our relations with Japan...
...allies, engaged in the crudest of all wars, an inestimable aid, and whose every effort was for the creation of a definite peace by the organization of an international entente, this Chamber addresses to the House of Representatives of the United States the homage of its sentiment of profound regret." The Deputies assented in silence by raising their right hands...