Word: regretted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early March. "The battle was desperate until daylight," reported the New Orleans True American, "when only seven men belonging to the Texan garrison were found alive, who cried for quarter, but were told that there was none for them. They then continued fighting until the whole were butchered. . . . We regret to say that Colonel David Crockett was among the number slain...
...with regret that we find it necessary to write you in connection with the Story appearing on p. 63 of TIME, March...
...Hanfstaengl is performing a valuable service in scotching several misconceptions concerning his past charities to this university. The Crimson and all others who have in the past been ignorant of his $1500 contribution to the 1909 class fund regret that the well-calculated fanfare accompanying his recent scholarship offer has drowned out the more welcome generosity of former times...
Looking back on her 49 feckless years, Evalyn sometimes feels surprised that she is still alive. She has managed to winnow a little wisdom from the chaff, hopes her children will profit from her experience. She does not regret paying $4,000 for her pink satin sheets because, "as any woman knows, forgetful, restful sleep will take out wrinkles." She is still defiant about having been tricked by the notorious Gaston B. Means into paying him $100,000 for the return of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. And she has told her children: "If you start paying blackmail you will never...
Unshaven and haggard was Premier Okada when he at last turned himself over to his astounded valet and was shaved, decked out as an Admiral with all his medals, and drove to the Palace to prostrate himself before the Emperor and humbly voice "my sincere regrets." It was not that the Premier regretted his sensational escape but that in Japan, when things get as far out of hand as they had last week, it is supposed that the Son of Heaven has been inconvenienced or disturbed and officials of the Empire are supposed to regret this. They may regret...