Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thirteen peers, grave dukes and sad-eyed earls, have brewed and tasted this twelvemonth an idea snugly within...
...been rolled and tossed in a creaking steel ark over thousands of watery miles. But now they were suspicious characters. They had been sequestered until Government veterinarians could be sure they did not harbor anthrax bacteria. Nearby were 15 African antelopes and four African wart hogs, similarly sequestered, suspect, sad...
...melodies to merited success. Wild Rose and One Little Kingdom, especially, belong at the top of the day's popular music. The play, of course, is laid in a, mythical kingdom, wherefore the princess fights the inevitable fight to reconcile love and duty, with the usual sad results; her U. S. lover acquits himself as he might be expected to before a U. S. audience. Thin comedy is compensated for by Desiree Ellinger, Joseph Santley, and sprightly dancers. But above all, there is the music...
...class, for Plymouth, Mass, on the May flower. Oh this voyage their three children, triplets, were barn. They would be known as The First Americans, for they were born within the three-mile limit, but unfortunately they had no passports and were not allowed to land. It was a sad day for the Forecast family when these three miles of humanity had to be thrown overboard. And that almost broke the Forecast line, for poor Prudence could not stand the rigors of the New England winter. The broken-hearted Caution survived harm, however, and realizing his duty to posterity...
...Jacob Islamoff had burned behind jammed doors. There was no angry inquiry as to why the "dolly" had not been finally tested. Pilot Fonck, Lieutenant Curtin, Designer Sikorsky and his aids, were all exonerated by the coroner of criminal negligence. Some "fanatics" (he did not name them) plagued sad Capitaine Fonck for days afterwards, with "insinuations" (he did not describe them). He said he believed he could have controlled the plane if a rudder had not been sheared off by the broken "dolly," which Jacob Islamoff, he thought, had released by the lever in the rear cabin...