Word: regretted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Germany] has broken up the road to peace. . . . And beset it with terrors. It claims a measure of armed power which puts most of the nations of Europe at its mercy. Every reflecting, reasonable German must see the force of the point I am making". ... I have written in regret, not merely in self-righteous condemnation. The door to honorable agreement ... is still open. . . . No one but Germany itself will close...
...Hearst often sneaks up on this blindly sentimental side when debates between them become warm. Dopesters predict that when the aging publisher dies, Jack Neylan will head the regency that tells Hearst's sons and Hearst's editors what to do. Yet some of his warmest admirers regret the Hearst connection, feel that Neylan's own capacities would have carried him farther, less equivocally...
...Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, a lion, and a motto by Editor George Horace Lorimer (Saturday Evening Post), talked darkly of Reds and Sedition. As soon as they had gone he called his secretary, dictated a letter to the University's able young President Robert Maynard Hutchins: "With regret, I am having my niece. Miss Lucille Norton, discontinue her studies at the University of Chicago. I am unwilling to have her absorb the Communistic influences to which she is so insidiously exposed...
...Harvest will be a comfort and a quotable aid. Author Lagerlöf, like all her contemporaries, has been through the mill; unlike most of them, her final comment transcends platitude: "Thanks and praise be to God that the hard truth came wrapped in happy memories, in feelings of regret and gratitude...
While it is with regret that Harvard hears of his retirement, we can be sure that Professor Taussig will never lose touch with the university to which he has given his life's work, and he bears from all who know him the wish that his retirement will bring well-merited satisfaction and rest...