Word: sad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until yesterday I was not shocked by your editorial treatment, but the shock of yesterday struck home like a blow from the hammer of Thor. I refer to your treatment of the recent sad incident in the life of Frank Norris in TIME, July 26 [RELIGION, p. 18], which I regard as an unwarranted irruption of blackguardism. I hold no brief for the Southern preacher ; if a fair trial establishes the fact that he is guilty he should pay the penalty for his crime. Neither do I defend Fundamentalism and Fundamentalists as such ; but I do believe in the integrity...
...stations. Public spirited citizens, who realize that most of the business section is of old, highly inflammable construction deemed good enough for the trade of immigrant steel workers, have pledged $10,000 to pay some wages to remaining firemen. The council, too, voted to discharge the entire police force, sad-eyed Police Chief B. J. Gillen with his 16 aids.* Sheriff Al Weaver promised to patrol the city. But the local magnates knew that he had but one chief deputy, one office deputy, one plain clothes deputy and four uniformed roadmen to prevent all the county's crime...
...court for disregarding a summons in an action by one Andrew K. Reynolds of Washington, D. C., to collect $280, an alleged debt. Mr. Wellman was released only when Banker-Explorer H. Murray Jacoby of Manhattan, an admirer, sent him a check to end what Mr. Jacoby termed a "sad spectacle...
...Rochelle, N. Y., the mourners for Miss Mary L. Merrill took sad pleasure in reading her will last week. She had directed that $25,000 go to the Rosary Hills Home for incurable cancer victims at Hawthorne...
Ashore many sad folk waited anxiously for the long unredeemed corpses of the mariners. And exhausted officers on the salvaging craft hoped that their patience-trying laborings begun last September would finally be completed. Twenty-four drowned sailors remained quite unconcerned with all the lugubrious consternation...