Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open scandal of King Edward and Mrs. Simpson. Yet there were outcries in the largest London newspapers last week against kicking the Duke of Windsor and his presumptive Duchess now that they are down. The Archbishop of Canterbury who is Primate of All England last week evinced regret that he had had to do so. The Archbishop of York, who is Primate of England, made his attack in the form of a pastoral letter. It was not so much an attack on the Duke of Windsor as an attack on every man who might do as Edward VIII had done...
...There is some danger," wrote the Archbishop of York, "that regret for the loss of the brilliant qualities and sympathy for a monarch who in critical days was confronted with a most painful choice, may divert our attention from the fact that the occasion for this choice ought never to have arisen. The harm was not done in December or even in October when he announced his intention of marriage to the Prime Minister, but much earlier...
...sent her photographs and plans of residences he might rent. It was also definite that His Royal Highness made a number of calls to England and expressed regret to certain loyal Gentlemen of the Palace and others to whom in his agitated state of mind he used harsh words during the crisis. It was not a matter of apology or forgiveness, but of right royal regret...
...regret the error made in the caption and are willing to make any adjustments that you think necessary...
...last vestige of a modern American literature course disappeared. For the current year English 70 has been discontinued, and when it is resumed in February of 1938, there is no telling what changes the mysterious withdrawal of Harvard's Whistler will have wrought. His flight from Harvard caused regret among many students and gave rise to renewed criticism of the administration. It would seem that nothing can be done now to right the wrong in Mr. De Voto's apparent conflict with the University last spring...