Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ludicrous antics that have to be gone through by members of the Music Department who try to use music books under the present inadequate arrangement would convulse any vaudeville audience, but in Harvard University are only sad. No department should be so handicapped by such bad literary facilities, when in the Physics Department, a stone's throw distant, every drinking fountain is equipped with an individual electric refrigerator--doubtless aiding the progress of science...
...Franco-British agreement of Premier Flandin with His Majesty's Government (TIME, Feb. 11) . In Paris last week Fascist Schuschnigg, incessantly guarded by popping motorcycle police "à l'Américaine" (a distinct novelty in France), had really nothing to do except to pin upon sad-eyed French President Albert Lebrun the Grand Cross of Austrian Merit and be pinned in return with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor. Since devout Catholic Schuschnigg is a passionate Monarchist he explained to the bored, irreligious French over & over just how wonderful it would be to proclaim deep-dimpled...
...paintings which went on sale last week were just the sort of thing that an elderly eccentric might be expected to buy: buxom ladies in pink draperies, sad-eyed St. Bernard dogs, angelic newsboys, Venetian sunsets...
...Shem, Japheth and the girls prove irredeemably wayward, human. By the time his craft comes to a perch atop Mount Ararat, Noah has even lost confidence in his distressed, slightly balmy wife. The children desert him, the animals turn savage, and poor old Noah is left sad, infirm, alone. He does not think he has quite deserved all his troubles. He doubts if their imposition has been quite "sporting" of God. But there is just one thing he wants to know. He lifts his shaggy face to heaven. "Are you satisfied?" he calls. "Are you satisfied?" And again...
...sad commentary on the lethargy, or, as a German might put it, "weltschmerz," prevailing among undergraduates on the subject of sport, many of whom have been richly endowed by Mother Nature with the strength to fill the gap, and who need only exhibit a scintilla of interest to discover that they would richly enjoy these sports and would contribute at one and the same time to their own physical well-being and their college's distinction, that such a condition should prevail, and I think that there are many other undergraduates who felt the same way about...