Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tempest of gossip and denial that the great Earl of Birkenhead would resign as Secretary of State for India was finally stilled, last week, when he, burly, brilliant and socially lionized, despatched to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin a lengthy letter. Suave, it concluded: "The moment of parting is always sad. Your own personality has converted a Cabinet which assembled upon the crater of some bitter and recent memories into a band of brothers. I leave them and you with emotion and, if I may be allowed to say so, with affection."-Birkenhead...
...dark curls bent so reverently, and that night deeded him the great monastic manor that had belonged to the Archbishop, then to Henry VIII. Orlando scribbled five-act tragedies, a dozen histories, a score of sonnets, until the Queen summoned him to Whitehall. Chains of office, jewelled Garter, sad embassy to the Queen of Scots, but from the bitter Polish Wars Elizabeth detained her darling. Her old heart broke when in a mirror she watched him make merry with a court wanton...
...indeed, a sad commentary on politics and higher education if the evidence of a single error in the list of members of an undergraduate political club must immediately lead to unsubstantial charges of forgery, padding its lists, and general corruption. The Hoover-for-President Club admits that the signature in question was not genuine; but its presence is known to be the result of a curious type of practical joke from an independent source, combined with carelessness on the part of one of our workers, whose membership sheet was not turned in until after the charges had appeared...
...sad commentary on politics and higher education when Republican corruption succeeds even in reaching undergraduates in college. Unlike its opponents, the Democratic Club with its ally, the Smith Robinson Club, makes no false claims of strength. Neither does it send its members madly dashing about with petitions, buttonholing passersby to sigh up for Hoover and the safety of the American home. It prefers to leave those tactics to the "dignified" Hooverites. Likewise have they found it unnecessary to create half a dozen organizations to include under the Hoover banner voters of both parties and every conceivable degree of undergraduate...
...wisdom is sad...