Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact it has twice the membership of the organizations of this country. Labor there is more stratified than in this country and class spirit more deeply ingrained. In the United States we are so deeply moved by the "log cabin to White House spirit" that a man fails to regret and remember the class that he has left, when he rises to a higher one. In Britian, on the other hand, laboring men have the feeling that they represent a class which is desirable and necessary, and which merits good treatment at the hands of the other classes...
Henry T. Finck (Post) : " The audience, I regret to say, encouraged the Odessan pianist in his disrespectful treatment of the great masters' music. . . . After a while his mumbled speeches, which could be heard only in the front rows, got on the nerves of some of the listeners, and they resorted to continuous applause to make him shut...
Earnest followers of American progress in musical comedy recall with poignant regret the death of Bert Savoy (TIME, July 9). Savoy was a female impersonator; the most strident yet one of the funniest of comedians. His phrases included: " You don't know the half of it, dearie," " You must come over," " You should have been with us." Now his partner, Jay Brennan, has taken unto himself a new and similar associate named Rogers. The pair are a success in provincial music halls. Shortly they will be tried in New York...
...League has lost a wise and valued member, liberty has lost a champion, fearless and well-equipped, the community has lost a true citizen. His passing is the occasion of deep and sincere regret...
...never had the intentions which have been attributed to it, and cordially renews to the American Red Cross the feelings of gratitude and admiration which were the object of the eighth resolution proposed by the committee, and adopted by the tenth conference in 1921." Chairman Payne replied: " I regret profoundly any cause of misunderstanding. The Red Cross is of such great importance to the world that controversy might be an international calamity. The representatives of the American Red Cross are in Europe and, as they possess our entire confidence, are in a position to treat the situation wisely." From Paris...