Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...closest friends. "I will retire from public life," he announced. "There is no chance of my changing my mind." "It can't be so!" cried Ontario's Welfare Minister David Croll* and sprinted for the Premier's office. "I could write columns on the dismay and regret I feel!" gasped Ontario Attorney General Arthur Roebuck, the spearhead of Mitch's onslaughts upon "the power barons" and "the interests." "If there were only himself to consider," snorted Ontario's Health Minister James Faulkner, M. D., "I wouldn't blame Mitch for quitting!" After much pecking...
...pool of blood oozing from six wounds. In the rear room, which smelled like a shooting gallery, they found a roly-poly little man with wide, blue eyes. He was Otto Biederman, gambler and underworld clown whom Damon Runyon frequently put into his stories under the name of "Regret." Biederman's face was a red smear of holes ind blood. Leaning over the table with one bullet in his belly, was the mussy, 33-year-old German Jew who was the cause...
...were responsible for the accident. Staggering toward an Army camp he collapsed, was found, fought with the doctor who wanted to amputate his foot. Anticipating his death, his fellow-pioneers tried to seize his few possessions. Weaklings could not endure this environment, were left to perish, apparently without regret. "Old Jules's" second wife. Henrietta, went out from Boston to marry him, drawn by artful letters written by Jules's sister. She was revolted by his crudeness, suffered in the miserable leaky shack. When Jules became involved in a feud and was accused of setting fire...
...with the awful risks he runs by steering a Victorian course in 1935. At his very elbow last week was the League of Nations in the person of grey-haired, ruddy-cheeked Sir Eric Drummond. As Secretary General of the League from its founding until he resigned amid widespread regret two years ago, this British Ambassador to Rome is ripe with "The Spirit of Geneva," "The Spirit of Locarno...
...regret exceedingly that circumstances will prevent me from attending the 55th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor," President Roosevelt, fishing in the Pacific, radioed William Green at Atlantic City last week. "I request that you express my regret to the convention and that you will convey to them my hope and confidence that your meeting will be successful and rich in accomplishment...