Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tell him also that other returns showed the Labor Party crushed to utter impotence (final returns gave Labor 52 seats in the present Parliament, compared to 287 in 1929 and 267 when Parliament adjourned). When beaten Leader Henderson had heard the worst he sighed, "I am sad and sorry." Later he brightened, prophesied: "Before many months have gone the nation will be sadder and sorrier...
...present commercial leisure class. His diaphanous lady has also gone the way of more flesh, and into her place swings the rebust, long-limbed woman of our time, with a figure for health and a comradely eye for a horse. Literature falters before her baffling smile, and the sad young men are troubled. To those confirmed in the opinion that the classic chastity is of Diana a result, not a cause, this development must possess a kind of staggering charm...
...lost. By far the most interesting phenomenon of the season, "Beacon Hill," magazine, appears on the new stands and though, still weak beside Mr. Hearst, makes a good step, and a sound step towards rehabilitating the past. The feature article opens appropriately with a sad though rousing cheer for ex-King Alphonso. The photograph of the former Spanish monarch, set next to a likeness of Queen Victoria, betrays, it is true, a certain wistfullness in its inspiration. Yet the solution for our present problems that it offers is essentially sound: Back to Queen Victoria! A charming anecdote lightens the text...
Deputy George Woodward Wickersham took strong exception to this conclusion. He called it Soviet. He said: "I think it would be a sad day when the American people abandon the principles on which they have grown to greatness. This is perhaps one of the most important pronouncements that the Church has ever been called upon to make, and I object to being bound...
...month home in River Forest Wolf heard of the audit and thought his game was up. He asked the vice president, an old, personal friend, to call at his house that evening. The two men sat down knee to knee and in ten minutes the whole sad tale was told...