Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was more than a trial of Isidor Jacob Kresel, the sad-faced, gnomish little attorney who had been a director and general counsel of Bank of United States when it crashed three years ago. He had been tripped by the same deal which had sent to Sing Sing Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer, president and vice president respectively of the bank. This particular deal was but an infinitesimal segment of a ring-around-a-rosy scheme to have certain affiliates pay off loans to the parent bank, involving five distinct series of transactions among six subsidiaries...
...prestige by their plucky work dragging light field guns through Philippine hill country. It was a great day for simple, hard working "Maud" when she was rewarded with the title of "Army Mule," and was paraded forth in a new blanket to face the Navy Goat, and equally sad, the first defeat and the loss to the enemy of blanket and pride...
There was a cabinet crisis, the franc was supposed to be in danger and Paris was on the qui vive last week, but sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun did not hurry through his luncheon. After the cheese, the fruit, the steaming café noir and the exquisite fine, there would be plenty of time to send one of M. le President's long-snouted Renault cars around to fetch a successor to fallen Premier Edouard Daladier (TIME, Oct. 30). When the limousine went out at last it sped to the Navy Ministry. There a great gourmet...
...develop. More significant than this, however, is the effect which the President's action must have on the growing tide of economic nationalism. A frank and cynical attempt by a great nation to jockey itself into a favorable agricultural market at the expense of its neighbors is a sad thing to see; fortunately M. Daladier's murmurings can no longer prevent France from leaving the gold standard, and so palliating the situation, but the basic ugliness is there and will not be obscured...
...meticulously unlovely, and earnestly mechanical. In short Miss Bennett has added another dud to her amazing collection. She is ably abetted in this process by a mundane story, by a stolid cast, and by a director with more memory than imagination. All in all, "After Tonight" is sad very sad...