Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia and engage in a good deal of international eye-gouging and groin-kicking at the expense of the USSR; if Germany and other European states launch an attack upon Russia at the same time that Japan does, it is obvious that the results are going to be pretty sad for the proletariat...
...Frenchmen: From the foreign land where a law of banishment cruelly detains me, I bow with sad emotion before the dead and wounded who, at the cost or the risk of their lives, accepted the challenge to probity and honor given by an unworthy Government in its panic-stricken impotence...
...book makes one sad, for almost all the wines mentioned by the author as ministers to his Dionysian joy were nineteenth century vintages, and have long since fulfilled their noble destiny. But some will derive comfort from the opinion that "Gin. . . is a very excellent, most wholecome, and, at its best, most palatable drink"; others from the realization that the twentieth century has had its good wine years, that Saintsbury learned by experiment, that there is as much ahead as in the past. Comfort will be derived, too, from the sparkle and rest radiating from every word...
...publicity, and his over-emphasis of the altruistic motive, as exemplified in the air-mail contracts wire. It is only too bad that he did not realize that he was going too far in sending this telegram to President Roosevelt--who saw through it easily enough--and only too sad that his publicity should have been one of the prime causes of the tragic loss of his boy, and by sensationalizing the whole affair, make it even more difficult for him and Mrs. Lindbergh to bear. Edward C. Tenney...
...been presenting solid conservative U. S. painting for 40 years, had a one-man show of water colors, oils and prints last week. There were portraits, landscapes of Maine, Canada, North & South Carolina, and an effective series of diamond point etchings of West Virginia mountaineers with their cabins, their sad-eared mules, their hound dogs. But for all its felicity of line one fact alone lifted this exhibition into prominence. It was the work of Harrison Cady, known to millions of children as the Peter Rabbit Man (he has made some 7,000 drawings of Peter), the indefatigable illustrator...