Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vincent Sheean became a reporter to satisfy a perennial upbubbling curiosity. He ceased to be a reporter because he began thinking about the meaning of events, commenced to take sides, to make what the philosophers call value-judgments. Personal History is the warm, semi-rueful story of how this sea-change came about as Sheean wandered from Chicago to New York, to Paris, to Persia, to China, to the Holy Land, to dinner parties in London and around the lecture circuit...
...Datsun advertisements the happy passengers are whites, even when the entire text is in Japanese. Prices f.o.b. Yokohama: Roadster, Yen 1,775 ($514.75); Phaeton, Yen 1,850 ($536.50) ; Sedan, Yen 1,975 ($572.75).* Advertised mileage: 50 per gallon. Speed: 45 m.p.h. Rueful Manhattan executives of Mitsubishi admit that there is not a single Datsun in North America (Chile has many), offer eagerly to supply a sedan (considered their swankiest model) for $660 at Mitsubishi Co. Ltd., No. 120 Broadway...
...rival of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek in schemes to make Chinese more virtuous (see above) is cocky Cantonese Admiral Chang Chi-ying. Not long ago he disrupted a new-style Cantonese custom, forbade mixed bathing, proclaimed the slogan "Feminine Curves Shall Not Be Seen By Men!" Last week rueful Cantonese prepared to observe a yet more obnoxious ban: "Mixed walking in public," decreed the Canton Government, "is not compatible with the old virtues and must cease...
...While Greek cheers and hand-clapping by Insull sympathizers rocked the court his three lawyers jostled each other in their efforts to be first to kiss his sunken cheeks and the close of Presiding Judge Panegyrakis' decision refusing extradition was lost in pandemonium. "I am very disappointed," said rueful Hunter Harness. "I am sorry for young Mr. Harness," cried generous Quarry Insull. "These Greek judges are ideal! I am more than satisfied. I shall stay here the rest of my life. Greece is a small but great country!" Back in Athens' Hotel Grande Bretagne, popular Guest Insull...
...number of times foreigners, especially Britons, have shaken rueful heads as they composed the Soviet Union's epitaph can scarcely be computed. . . . This not to mention a more regrettable incident of three years ago when an American correspondent discovered half the Ukraine flaming with rebellion and proved it by authentic documents eagerly proffered by Rumanians...