Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rung. Nobody so far has denied that the Russian bellman drank ink, but several people up there have written us indignantly that the bells do ring. It comes out that every Monday evening at six-thirty Lowell House holds High Table, which is a secret--and we should imagine, sad--sort of dinner, attended only by House members and invited dignitaries. After this function, the High Tablers, led by Head Tutor Mason Hammond, wind in a solemn procession up into the tower to see and hear the bells...
...sad that in this period of falling faces, the art level has declined. If only the girls would take pride in their profession and economize with the paints, they might at least achieve the distinction of being artists. That's a long way up from the barn painting class. Minnesota Daily...
...tread upon as they go to deliver a lecture on the "Use of the Infinitive in Chaucer," or "The Place of the Hammer in the Building of the Wooden Horse." It requires all his alchemy to turn such prosey matter into palatable pap for the undergraduate. The sweet, sad music of humanity has suddenly become rather blatant jazz. And in, addition all this about the Vagabond wandering as he listeth with no man for his master, caring only for the free life and indulging only in an occasional lecture because he likes it is fiction--unadulterated fiction. Day after tomorrow...
...little volume entitled "Eminent Victorians" swept over England. Theretofore the Victorian age had been a sad business full of inhibitions and morality, the study for psychologists and professors of literature, the butt of disillusioned liberalism. But with the advent of this book into the world the dying years of the Nineteenth Century became an intensely human period peopled by men and women of flesh and blood. Lytton Strachey with his sardonlc pen had traced in a handful of fascinating actors upon a stage where before there had been only a dingy backdrop. But his contribution to literature was even greater...
...bird was bouncing swiftly from bat to bat in the Bucharest Badminton Club one day last week when sad news suddenly spread through the galleries: James Walker Brown had been ordered home. Former Queen Elisabeth of Greece and her friend the Princess of Hohenlohe heard it in the royal...