Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then the McLeans were well able to wear their Post as a bauble. Those were the days of the parties at "Friendship," incredibly lavish affairs attended by "everybody" in Washington. Though she presided as hostess, often wearing the great diamond,* Evelyn McLean seemed by contrast somewhat Victorian, somewhat "sweetly sad...
Narrator of this sad story was a doctor who ran amuck. Resident in a native village in the Dutch East Indies, he was lonely, bored till one day in walked a beautiful Englishwoman, a rich trader's wife. She was in trouble: her husband, who had been away five months, was about to return; she was going to have a baby by another man; she wanted the doctor to perform an illegal operation while there was time. She offered him a fortune to do it. The doctor did not like her manner : she was supercilious, but she fired...
...announcement of these sad tidings was posted on bulletin board, alongside dozens of other notices, characteristic of the trouper's trade. Samples...
...translation) anniversary at Exeter. The Oriental Sage objected to the intrusion of business, emphasizing the fact that he had laid aside his plans to foretell the final scores of the Harvard-Princeton polo match and the Harvard-Holy Cross baseball duel. And here, the Vagabond must confess to a sad outcropping of a little hasty irritation. He wanted to hear President Lowell speak.... he has never missed hearing the President of Harvard since he's been writing copy for the CRIMSON.... and he didn't intend to spoil his record. So, in his petty anger, he unthinkingly insinuated that...
...have decided absolutely to place no obstacles in the path of the Republican Government, which, for me, above all is now the Government of Spain. . . . It would be the greatest sacrifice of my life if I should be forced to abandon Spain. It would be very sad if, some day, history does not do me justice...