Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greenaway* vignette, Eugeène Berman's wild, sad, subtle Tobias and the Angel (1938)† and the likewise tattered Peasants in Front of a House by Louis Le Nain...
Soon after death came to Pius XI last week, the great eleven-ton Campanone, largest of St. Peter's bells, was set to its deep, sad tolling. This week, as a triple coffin was lowered to the crypt of St. Peter's, not only the Campanone and the bells of Rome's mourning churches but a tolling from hundreds of cathedrals, from thousands of parish churches the world over, sounded the grief of the widowed Church and millions of her children over the loss of the kindly little man whom, they devoutly and humbly believed, the workings...
Courses are getting too easy and the university is in a sad plight. Let us by all means have our Chuang Tzu, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, and Po Chu-i unadulterated. With respectful kowtow, John...
...Father Cyprian Rice preached a sermon; another Dominican, Prior Antoninus Maguire, sprinkled holy water from an aspergillum on a tiger, a trained Pekingese, some horses and six pretty little albino donkeys. Three large brown bears were brought in, pushed into seats, blessed and photographed, looking clumsily reverent and infinitely sad...
...probably never been a moment in the world's history when more exciting things were going on than in 1939. That Hollywood can supply no better salute to 1939 than a $2,000,000 rehash, however expert, of Rudyard Kipling and brown Indians in bed sheets, is a sad reflection on its state of mind...