Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent dispatches rueful Moscow correspondents have been cabling that, while it may "sound funny" in the U. S. for the newly appointed U. S. Ambassador to Russia, genial and wealthy Lawyer Joseph Edward Davies, to be sending along some 2,000 pints of cream and other quick-frozen foods such as strawberries (TIME, Dec. 28), it is "no joke" in Moscow where there is often no cream at any price. The Ambassadorial strawberries...
...newshawks or Secretary Morgenthau had expected to find the old man in a mellow mood on laying down his duties, they received a rude surprise. Taciturn Chief Moran's mood was black and rueful. A reporter asked if his recent absence from duty was due to sickness...
...week it dropped a trick in Ethiopia because a minor monarch got it into his kinky head that it would be good defensive strategy to rush the concession to signature at a critical juncture in his country's history and then blab about it to the world. Said a rueful Standard Oilman in Manhattan, in a matchless piece of understatement: "The publicity was handled badly...
...dignity to take a job as janitor and prefers to mistreat his mistress while she supports him, Boyer supplies precisely that mixture of cruelty and innocence which is required to make Liliom a sympathetic character. Director Lang's treatment of the story brings out the quality of rueful fantasy which Author Molnar put into the play and which was so notably absent from the U. S. screen version in which Charles Farrell appeared (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). Characteristically imaginative is Lang's use of puppets-usually a detriment to any cinema-in the interlude which shows Liliom, after...
...desert the seraphim and the kingdom of talking brutes. His first real commercial success, One More Spring, followed the fortunes of a group of indigent outcasts who sought shelter in a street cleaner's tool shed in Central Park. Still in the realm of fantasy, this rueful little fable cut close enough to the essence of lean-year reality to please those who detest animals that behave like humans...