Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs : I felt really bad, on reading on p. 38 TIME, April 5, "Psychic Impotence" not only bad but sad, and mean...
...great popular interest in the Riffian campaign lies rather in the picturesque character of the conflict, where a race endowed with little more than good rifles and the ability to stand up for themselves even in an unfair fight taught the French and Spanish armies that late sad experience has not exhausted the combinations possible in war. The Riffian rebellion began as an unimportant matter of suppressing a few inconvenient barbarians; it developed into a conflict where airplanes and modern discipline were hard put to it to hold their own against irregular troops For the irregular troops fought...
...friends of the largest zoo in the world met for their annual garden party, in Bronx Zoological Park, New York City. There were tea for the grownups, amiable camels and ponies for the children to ride, and movies of the animals for everyone to see. But also there was sad news. Dr. William Temple Hornaday, for 30 years presiding genius and animal-man of the Bronx, announced his resignation as Director. He was 72 years old and wanted peace and quiet...
...rascal in the form of a false report. Here Melville Stone's* foiling of the old Chicago Post and Mail 50 years ago is the classic model. Mr. Stone, then part owner and editor of the Chicago Daily News, printed a false despatch about some fictitiously sad distress in Serbia and ran in some supposedly Serbian words, "Er us siht la Etsll iws nel lum cmeht," as meaning, "The municipality cannot aid." The Post and Mail, owned by the McMullen brothers, promptly stole the story in toto, were chagrined to have all Chicago told that the "Serbian" phrase...
...emphasize this appeal, posters in streetcars, on the pillars of subway stations, the billboards of vacant lots, present the picture of a woman in a shawl. Her chin is pressed to the pivot of her wrist; her eyes are smeared with black. She might be any age, this sad, sharpened Jewess; the thing that has pointed her bones and thinned her flesh is not age but weariness; she is the incarnation of the most desolate of physical woes, fatigue. "Are You Tired of Giving?" asks the caption. "You Don't Know What It Is to Be Tired...