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Word: sadly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sympathetic U. S. women, alighting in Moscow at dawn from their comfortable tourists' sleeping cars, have been known to burst into tears at the sad sight of Russians in their utterly drab, cast-offlooking clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: We Want to Dress | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...White Oak Mountain, just north of Danville, Virginia. As the train reached a curving trestle, it left the tracks and plunged into a ravine below. The crew was killed and the train was completely destroyed. Quite a number of songs were written by different persons to commemorate this sad event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Week's Cargo | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Yoslie Kalb is a sad story about a Jewish student (Horace Braham) who is seduced by the girl (Erin O'Brien-Moore ) whom a rabbi (Fritz Leiber) wants to marry and spends 15 years wandering about as Joe The Fool ("Yoshe Kalb"). Critics admired bits like a graveyard dance by an idiot girl and a candlelit trial of Joe The Fool for bigamy before 70 rabbis but found the rest dull, pompous, obscurely symbolical. After three nights. Mr. Frohman closed his first production in 22 years with an old man's sigh of dismay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 8, 1934 | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...government triumphant over the legislative in both city and national affairs. Mr. LaGuardia has demanded what amounts to dictatorial power over the finances of the city of New York, and it seems extremely likely that he will get it, for the credit of the city is in such a sad state that heroic measures must be resorted to in order to save...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 1/4/1934 | See Source »

...blubbers about her in delirium. His wife is ready to accompany him to a quarantine island, from which no visitor returns alive, but it is Miss Julie who shuffles tragically along beside Preston's litter on its way to the lazaretto while her '"niggers" sing sad spirituals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jan. 1, 1934 | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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