Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fancy collars and a lifted eyebrow, onetime King, hero of thwarted lovers, Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor, went home, taking with him his still unroyal, still beloved Duchess. Once the news would have been the biggest in all Britain; last week it was just another parenthesis in the sad story of war. The Kelly was scheduled to dock at Portsmouth at 6:30 one evening. At 6:45 the blundering Ministry of Information announced that the Duke had landed. But not until 9, more than two hours after the news hit the wires, did the Duke set foot...
Last week citizens of little Honesdale, scene of the historic sendoff, heard sad news. Because passenger revenue has fallen off sharply, Erie Railroad will shortly abandon its Honesdale branch, leaving the town without passenger train service for the first time in nearly 75 years...
...Though sad, the stories do not make the reader cry; though funny, they do not make him laugh; cumulatively they make him nervous. The bare, observant technique draws attention to itself and to its occasional flaws (the story Trouble in 1949 hinges on an exchange of car keys for which the author makes no provision). Possibly two prides-the Irishman's and the craftsman's-conspire to allow O'Hara no ambitious flops. But readers who are not reporters will wonder how anyone can write so well and yet so rarely try to write better...
...Champ" is about an ex-champ who has nothing left but his memories. It is very sad and it has a happy ending. Don't let this scare you, because you can sit through it without squirming...
What made Pius XII particularly sad was the thought of his sheep fighting each other: 37,900,000 German Catholics (21,000,000 of 67,000,000 pre-Hitler Germans, plus 6,100,000 Austrian souls, plus 10,800,000 in Czecho-Slovakia) pitted against 23,000,000 devout Poles-just about his stanchest followers anywhere...