Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christ propped against the wall in London's swank Leicester Galleries, the latest work of a heavyset, U. S.-born Jewish sculptor, Jacob Epstein. Entitled Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), the great bas-relief slab showed a huge square head, nearly as large as the torso, with thick sad lips, sightless almond eyes, and two great hands tied with rope. That was about...
...left it dangling 30 ft. high, ripped up rails like so much spaghetti. Trundled back into her hangar by an emergency ground crew, the old "L. A." was found to be suffering from a dented gondola, broken struts, torn fabric. Newshawks found Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl far from sad. "The wind did the Navy a favor," he explained. "This is one of the very things we are studying. . . . The L. A. can take...
...course, the sad-faced bankers were thinking chiefly in terms of international exchange - particularly pound sterling, whose steep decline in the past few weeks threatens to bring on a crisis in the gold bloc lands and touch off a world race for currency depreciation...
...Well, it's over now," said the secretary. "If I may coin a phrase, the King signed his abdication at 1:45 with 'sad or unhappy relief,' certainly with relief. Here it is. He is no longer King of Siam but to us he will always be King...
...material which they could have used as the basis for uproarious comedy or stark horror, Scenarists Jo Swerling and Robert Riskin and Director John Ford contrived to do both without giving their work at any point the appearance of a tour de force. A network of subsidiary plots-the sad misadventure of Jones's maiden aunt when she meets Killer Mannion; Mannion's astute revenge on a rival gangster who mistakes him for Jones-are brilliantly used to make the doings of little Jones the more strange, heroic, touching and preposterous. In his dual...