Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gallant lost causes leave sad aftermaths, and one of the saddest is the plight of the broken leaders. London last week was the temporary refuge of a Robert E. Lee and a Jefferson Davis of the late Republic of Czechoslovakia. They are Eduard Benes and Jan Masaryk, two men who devoted 20 years of their lives to a cause which no longer exists. Like Lee and Davis, they did not know what to do next...
Just about this time last year Coach Hal Ulen's biggest problem was that the group of stars who comprised the unbeaten 1938 League champions might be overconfident. It's a sad fact that Hal's problem is different this year. Following the trend of world politics, he's changed from a "have" to a "have-not," and his job this season will be to form a small nucleus of experienced Juniors and some promising Sophomores into a team worth its salt...
...much for the tempers of hardworking Paris artists, tired of tales of their amorality, was publication in Paris-Soir of a lurid Life & Love of Maurice Utrillo. Sad-eyed, lanky Artist Utrillo got a tosspot reputation in his youth, produced, nevertheless, many serious and hauntingly gifted paintings, and for at least ten years has been sober as a church. The Life & Love was accordingly branded "A tissue of lies, calumnies and erroneous or tendentious information" in a manifesto issued by 54 furious artists and critics, including such noted names as Derain, Picasso, Kisling...
...filled with news that is sad; The papers each day print their fill...
...used to be at University of Minnesota and is now a professor of education at Stanford University, and Minnesota's Dr. C. Robert Pace investigated what had become of Minnesota men and women graduates, vintages of 1928 to 1936. They tracked down nearly 6,000, came to the sad conclusion that "a bachelor's degree is not an insurance policy against the effects of an economic depression." Chief findings...