Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What makes us sad," commented Rev. Sigfrid Sirenius, one of Helsinki's leading settlement workers, "is to think that revenue from the sale of liquor will soon figure as the basis of the national budget. . . . The local deduction will be that it will be a patriotic duty to drink heavily, so that the State will get more revenue...
Turf enthusiasts heard sad news last week. On top of the bickering between Miami's two tracks (TIME, Dec. 21) and the announcement last week that Maryland bettors had wagered only $46.618,249 in 1931 ($1,218.427 less than the year before), came word that the Agua Caliente Jockey Club had suspended its meeting till Jan. 1, saw little chance of continuing thereafter...
...unpublished short story by the author of Sanctuary and The Sound and the Fury, it was limited to 400 copies, each signed by the author, has already been sold out. The story, told by an old mail-carrier of the Southwest with many false starts and digressions, relates the sad fate of a nameless woman. Married to a rich husband in the East, with two children, she left them to come out to the desert to nurse her "lunger" lover, ten years younger than herself. He recovered and one fine day up & left her. She stayed on in the lonely...
...Sad Totals. New England, centre of banking excitement last week, was not the only section of the country where rich and poor stood mutely to gaze at closed banking portals. The year, a disastrous one to the banking structure, has been marked by two types of troubles. There have been the major financial disturbances which have suddenly overcome great financial centres. There has been the steady stream of isolated failures. Last week this stream continued, much less torrential than during late summer, but still muddy. The week's tally of bank closings (suspensions and failures and voluntary liquidations...
...strong old man of 91 had a sad announcement to make last week. He was Franklin MacVeagh. Secretary of the Treasury under President Taft, president of Franklin MacVeagh & Co., 66-year-old Chicago wholesale grocery house. The announcement was that the Depression had been too much, the old firm would dissolve. ''My son, Eames, wanted to close the business some time ago," said Grocer MacVeagh. "But I did not resolve to do so until a week ago. . . . We have gone through several panics and one great disaster, the Chicago fire. The present depression will...