Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collapse of the cotton market, Mrs. Blennerhassett wrote a melancholy elegy to her Ohio River home: Like mournful echo, from the silent tomb, That pines away upon the midnight air, While the pale moon breaks out, with fitful gloom; Fond memory turns with sad, but welcome care, To scenes of desolation and despair, Once bright with all that beauty could bestow, That peace could shed, or youthful fancy know To the fair isle reverts the pleasing dream. . . . In 1831 Harman Blennerhassett died. A decade later his widow and his old lawyer, Senator Henry Clay, were trying to get a bill...
...Italian intervention in Ethiopia does not affect seriously our interests cried Sidky Pasha. "We received all kinds of assurances that Italy would not touch our ancient rights. ... We do not feel an; danger from Italy. ... We must realize with sad hearts that our country being treated in this affair as a colony populated with primitive peoples who have to bow without an understanding of everything imposed upon them! Ready enough to start bowing himself Sidky Pasha larded into his speech coy hints that Egypt must continue under Britain's thumb but should have her official "free and independent" status...
...peewee ballet dances, a morose tenor sings a superb ballad (My Little Lilliput Girl) and a troupe of midgets, as small to the Lilliputians as the Lilliputians are to Gulliver, caper mysteriously in front of him. When a stage manager hits a midget with a stick. Gulliver perceives the sad truth: Lilliputia is a Capitalist nation. He speedily allies himself with the Workers Party, drags the Lilliputian navy out to sea, smiles when the frantic little king hangs himself on the hands of a gigantic clock. Then Gulliver wakes up at the picnic...
...manufacturer, bespectacled, 47, Director Benoit-Lévy, whose Itto, dealing with Moroccan revolution, is the current cinema sensation in France, selected his cast from slum children who had never acted or even learned to recite. Paulette Elambert, a rather ugly little girl with a big mouth and sad intense eyes, hopes to grow up to be a confectioner...
...Sad by temperament, few football coaches have developed the technique of taciturn uncertainty to the point reached by Dana X. Bible of the University of Nebraska. President of the American Football Coaches' Association, athletic director at Nebraska, with a lifetime record of 124 games won, 30 lost, 12 tied and a salary of at least $10,000 a year. Coach Bible's career has been a model of its kind. It seems to give him little satisfaction. A pot-bellied little man, whose brown, bald, elliptical head has developed an unmistakable resemblance to a football...