Word: rueful
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...Thus 28 rueful French deputies discovered that Poldavia and the Poldavians, their Foreign Minister and embossed stationery, were just another hoax of Royalist Daudet and his followers, the Camelots du Roi ("hawkers of the King"). Their object again was to prove that all Republicans are either imbeciles or ignoramuses...
...Dieudonné Costes' rueful exclamation was all the chagrin of frustrated egotism...
While cameras clicked, the onetime Crown Prince chatted amiably with reporters, who protested that they were being kept out of House Doom with such iron rigor that really it would be most difficult to write satisfactory stories. Taking the hint at once, "Wilhelm III" ran a rueful hand through his now pure white hair and promised to do what he could...
Attorney Serri, fuming, not a bit rueful, retaliated with a letter of complaint to Chief Justice William Howard Taft, copies of which were sent to Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent and the Brooklyn Bar Association. Wrote Mr. Serri: "By indirection, with almost unspeakable vulgarity . . . [Judge Atwell] practically approved and incited the repetition by the officers of such conduct in this city. I doubt whether in all judicial annals there can be found such open incitement to public disorder and breach of the peace as the words of this judge. ... I submit to you that for a Judge...
...tragedy of the 54, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur last week composed a final chapter. It was a chapter more rueful than happy, but it brought balm to Rear Admiral Frank H. Brumby who, as commander of the Control Force and officer in charge of the rescue effort, was recommended for demotion by the Navy's court of inquiry (TIME, March...