Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...learn to fly this ship!", his painful metaphors can be passed off as the result of embarrassment. But when Myrna Loy describes herself as a lowwing single-motored monoplane with a fair wingspread and "streamlined, so they tell me!", the whole idea of conversation along those lines becomes pretty sad...
Among the sad collection of foreigners being shipped out of the U. S., only one is glad to be returning whence he came. He is a noted gunman, and the Department of Labor's free ride back to Italy fits his plans perfectly. With his gains of violence he can settle down under an olive tree and live happily ever after. But the gunman's ex-colleagues are loath to have him go. Two of them board the train, quietly pass the word among the passengers that, as witnesses to a murder, their stay...
...gloomy aisles. It is significant that none of the sparrows has ever been found in the Gymnasium except during the periods of inquisition. They are doubtless imported for the occasion by the sprightly overseer to tantalize the troubled multitude with a bright vision of liberty. It is all rather sad...
...gruesome appropriateness. We now know that it was intended to symbolize the barge of Charon carrying its freight from shore to shore. We are too dejected even to mutter maledictions on the head of the architect possessed of this ghastly sense of humor. It is all rather sad...
...willow, titwillow, titwillow.' It is all rather sad. --Columbia Spectator...