Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...savage Boer War and much strife thereafter have made Premier General James Barry Munnik Hertzog sad-faced and careworn. To a caucus of his United Party at Oudtshoorn last week the droop-whiskered veteran said with grim conviction...
...such a housewife, when one purse is empty the Administration schemes to see how it can legally borrow from the other purses. But nowhere could President Roosevelt find a purse from which to borrow $76,000.000 with which to start his Social Security program. Even this was not so sad as New Dealers liked to make it out, for the Social Security Board will need time to start functioning. In any event, much of the money could not be distributed before next January, when Congress will once more be in session and able to supply it. After all, Franklin Roosevelt...
Thrifty Freshmen should learn from this sad tale that the CRIMSON is not a luxury but a necessity...
...hardly an active member of the Fourth Estate who has missed stubbing his toe or bruising his knuckles upon ethical bugaboos of medicine and science. The reporter is most likely to be damned if he does report and doubly damned if he doesn't. This is a rather sad and unreasonable state of affairs. As a newspaper reporter, and more recently as a magazine reporter, I have time & time again felt the cool breath of informed disdain, however long and conscientiously I may have striven to report accurately and sympathetically. If this fate were peculiar to me, it could...
Alice Adams (RKO). The tests of time and translation into cinema have had an unpredictable effect upon the Booth Tarkington novel which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. Then it was a sad little story about a small-town girl so ashamed because her parents were poorer than those of her friends that, when a glamorous visitor fell in love with her, she destroyed her one real chance of happiness by carrying on an absurd pretense of being richer and more popular than she was. Nowadays,, because people whose circumstances are as comfortable as those of the Adams family seem...