Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From both coasts came hostile editorial comment on the Mayoral junket. "In the country as a whole," observed the New York Herald Tribune, "there will be many to hope that His Honor will succeed in his mission; but it is a sad commentary on American justice that the freedom of anyone should hinge on a 'stunt...
...Commenting on a Japanese prizefight, he imitates a radio announcer, ends with, "Graham McNamee announcing." There is no pun about Chinese junk. Pictorially, Around the World in 80 Minutes is nothing much. But the cinema has always before treated information as a bore; travelogs have almost without exception been sad and spiritless products proving, to the accompaniment of chop-suey music, that all Chinese look alike. This travelog is a novelty because it is witty and de luxe, the record of a trip which must have been fun and of a personality which is happy, egoistic, alert. Douglas Fairbanks obviously...
More than that, the rumblings of rebellion against the sanctity of the game are being heard here and there throughout the country with perhaps increasing strength. Princeton alumni are dismayed by the sad record of this year's team, but the undergraduates display a bewildering indifference regarding its fate. Columbia's eleven has brightened the New York horizon by winning a few games, but the editor of the student daily has mitigated the resultant joy by charging the team with professionalism. The worst blow of all, however, has come from that foremost glorifier of the gridiron, the movies...
...hurried this change. the nations looked out over the barren world with the sad face of disillusion. God, if there was a God, no longer was in His Heaven, and nothing was right with the world. Literature was not slow to sense this change. A new school grew up, a school of brittle intellectuals which bathed in the flotsam of a world beside itself. The decade of the twenties found a group of poets who distrusted the emotions, the subtler verse forms, the glories of nature, the grandeur of idealism. While the Romantics were making their last weak exit lines...
...John, arguing for Lord Kylsant before Mr. Justice Avory of the Court of Criminal Appeal, lightly brushed aside the fact that some thousands of small investors bought British Royal Mail stock on the basis of the offending prospectus and lost most of their investment. "Surely it is a sad thing," cried Sir John, "if something economical in its information [the prospectus] is to be declared a falsehood. . . . Every word, every figure in the prospectus was accurate. . . . The average of ten years earnings by the Royal Mail which it contained was absolutely correct...