Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sad that at my age I must continue to watch over Greek liberties!" shrilled 71-year-old M. Venizelos, his famed skull cap jerking back & forth on his bald head, to rest now on his neck, now on the bridge of his nose. "I had announced my retirement, but if the ex-King dares to return, I shall return to the political arena, resolved to save my country from the tyranny of a royalist dictatorship...
Amid the corrupt peasant-born super-bandits who ruled various parts of China as "war lords" ten years ago, Marshal Wu Pei-fu was the one old-fashioned Confucian scholar. A sad-eyed, firm-jawed little man with shaved skull and bedraggled mustache, Wu is supposed to be a descendant of one of Confucius' favorite pupils. At ten he could recite from the Chinese classics interminably and with feeling. His own poetry shows a gift for direct metaphor unusual in an Oriental. He had, moreover, a competent grasp of military strategy; he was incorruptible, brave and patriotic; his followers...
...this coming of Death to one who had summoned Death so often, Baron Hewart gave vent to a grief Homeric. "His place can never be filled!" cried the Lord Chief Justice of England. "He will have no successor. To the English Bench it is a sad and irreparable loss, but to me it is a devastating shock! . . I am almost too overcome with tears to speak. . . . No sweeter spirit ever adorned the earth...
...diverse as they are in different sections of the United States there are not less misfits in each Freshmen class. That there are so few is a tribute to the Committee on Admissions, and to those faculty members who come into daily contact with Freshmen--though it is the sad truth that their Advisers cannot be included in this group...
Detective Scaffa, son of a Sicilian contractor, looks and acts as if he might have been invented by Dashiell Hammett. He is tall and dark, sleek, sad-eyed, softspoken, close-mouthed and elusive. The public has heard that he lives quietly with his mother in The Bronx, takes no interest in women, has never read a detective story in his life. No one except Scaffa knows just how much stolen property he has retrieved. He puts the figure...