Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friend Nazro (Slim Summerville) stand on a rain barrel and peer through the schoolhouse window, Star distinguishes herself. She makes the young nephew of the truant officer, being questioned simultaneously, appear doltish by comparison, gains credentials for the third grade. As lighthouse inspector, Captain Nazro has the sad duty of telling Captain January that, because his light is being mechanized, he must join the unemployed. This means that poor little Star is likely to be turned out doors...
...comment on Roosevelt II: "President Roosevelt must be a very rich man because he gives all his money to the people. But we think he ought not to give all his money to the people and ought to save some for when he is old. It would be very sad for him if he was an old man without any money and had to sleep in the park...
...perhaps Pat, who knew of all these sad goings-on ... was practising restraint and was working slowly...
Last week, as the campaign moved to Chicago, the real battleground, Mayor Kelly injected religion into it when he cried to some 500 Jewish politicians assembled in the Morrison Hotel: "It will be a sad day in Illinois for the Jews if it is apparent in the face of the election results that the Jews voted for Horner because he is a Jew. . . . When Henry Horner was nominated in 1932 the Irish went to the front for him and they battled side by side with the Jews to elect him. Now we're fighting Horner...
...Westinghouse stockholders had more pleasant things to think about than George Westinghouse's last sad years. For 1935 the company reported profits of nearly $12,000,000, best figure since 1929 and a whopping increase over the measly $189,000 reported for 1934. In the three years before that, Westinghouse piled up $20,000,000 worth of deficits, and its stock sold as low as $15 per share. Last week Westinghouse...