Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defection the folks realize they are now the old folks. Fred retires from the bank, and he and Annie drive out to California for a long visit. What they see there confuses and repels them; they are glad to get home again, even to a life that is now sad and complicated. Their story ends when, back in their old home, Fred reaches for his wife's old hand, the one thing he can still cling to, sums up everything in the only words he can find: "Well, mama...
Such rational articles as these gave the "Hoot", despite its frequent sops to sensationalism, a justifiable function. It is a sad commentary on the undergraduate body that such a review should prove financially impossible. --Yale Daily News...
...apparently the legal geniuses that burn in Langdell prefer to offer their ideas to the government, perhaps in an effort to bring some order out of the chaos that rules our life. Sad Indeed is it to see our youth of today go without the teachings of the great, but, oh, perhaps it is more valuable for the masters to attempt to teach their findings to those who feel that brains, as such, can run a government...
There's Always Tomorrow (Universal) is a sad little glimpse of the White family, battling a picayune crisis. Mother White (Lois Wilson) is so devoted to her children that she forgets about Father White (Frank Morgan) except when the furnace gets too low. When the children give a party he has to sit out on the porch. He is cooling his heels there one evening when Alice Vaile (Binnie Barnes), his onetime secretary, finds him. Presently, Father White and Alice Vaile are involved in an innocuous intrigue. On Thursday nights, he tells Mother White that he is going...
After weary months of pinking each other with diplomatic rapiers in Tokyo, cocky little Japanese Foreign Minister Koko Hirota and gruff, sad-eyed Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev were so jangle-nerved last week that each was glad to throw the issue at stake to his native Press, which promptly charged the other's Government with a "Gigantic Plot...