Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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16th.-Lay long in dreams, and much troubled at my heart with the great owl I did kill last night while driving in Walthem. So drest myself, and back to the stump where, very sad, I left him. But, lo, the big bird was gone! Yet I know he must be dead for he did hoot violently when I to pick him up and then he to cough up some mouse's parts and then to close his white eyes and hoot no more. This I do not like too much for I have heard evil things of those witchy...
Most important speaker lined up by Dean Frank Lee Martin, Dr. Williams' successor and longtime associate, was President Hugh Baillie of United Press. Addressing Journalism School students and guests, United Pressman Baillie painted a sad picture of Press censorship and repression the world over, perked up sufficiently to declare: "I envy you men and women who are just starting in. You've got a lot of fun ahead...
Helen Westley, with the magnificent eyes and nose of an owl, is Cap'n Andy's shrewish wife Parthy. Their daughter Magnolia, whose story is the sad old one of the girl married to a wastrel and abandoned, is Irene Dunne who, in black face and kinky wig, sings Gallivantin' Aroun'. Allan Jones, despite a good voice, makes Magnolia's Gaylord Ravenal into a handsome nonentity. Familiar to many a Show Boater will be Hattie McDaniel, an amiable and enormous Negro who helps Robeson with a rollicking song called Ah Still Suits...
...Face . . . that was my first fight, and the only ungentleman man I have meet in Turkey sorry it happen as I had been thinking all day if I had to give a prize to the most respectfully men it would go to the Turks, the other men felt so sad.") She turned her most dangerous mishap (a train wreck in Czechoslovakia in which 26 people were killed) into profit, when she asked damages for a black eye, got the $200 she asked...
...history of the tax bill has been a sad commentary on legislative procedure under the Roosevelt regime. Early in the current session, Roosevelt sent a message to Congress seeking $600,000,000 additional revenue and presented the House with a proposal to levy prohibitive taxes on undistributed income. Despite the reasonable arguments of Messrs. Sibley, May, and Houston, the House held only perfunctory hearings on the bill. The 240 pages of legislation, embodying an entirely new departure in our theory of taxation, were at no time carefully scrutinized by House legislators. Mindful that it is easiest to mend political fences...