Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three people disagreed with Owner Widener. One was Max Hirsch, 53-year- old horse trainer who, like Owner Widener, had in the past 20 years won almost every other U. S. horse race except the Derby. Second was his sad-eyed, 23-year-old daughter Mary, first woman ever to receive a trainer's license from The Jockey Club (TIME, April 15, 1935). "Miss Mary" was absent from Louisville last week because her own charges were running at Jamaica, L. I. But to ride her-father's Derby entry, Bold Venture, she sent her contract apprentice jockey whom...
...Early up, and glad at my heart to know I am finished with examinations; and, yet, a little sad to quit my studies with my tutor, and to feel I must soon leave these pleasant bowers where I have learned many sweet philosophies. But it being such a fair day, I no more of these thoughts; so, in brave new flannels, all a bubble, to the office where I have not been in a long time. There I did see many new faces and one young one did ask what might my business be. Also I see my desk...
...essential if that system is to survive. As compared with Soak-the-Investor taxation, and the rigidities of monopoly, price fixing, wage fixing, and output fixing of the N.R.A., the Wagner Bill, and the A.A.A., this new principle looks like something straight from the angels. It is extremely sad that Roosevelt should again have betrayed what promised to be a great idea by the stupidity with which he worked it out in practice...
...weeks he ordinarily lost ten pounds and annexed a few grey hairs. It is the same with college grads in a studio conference. Confessing no serious intent, they strive to put as much entertaining frivolity as possible in the scenario-dramatizing college life never was meant to be a sad task...
Last week it became apparent that Edward Lancaster Lee understood this language better than his colleagues. After an eight-day round robin in which each man played the seven others, Deardorff had been beaten twice and Edmond Soussa, sad-eyed son of a Cairo cigaret tycoon, three times, while Lagache, the defending champion, had lost more games than he had won. Lee not only won all seven of his games but, in the last, against Lagache, made the high run of the tournament-10 caroms...