Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Alma Jacobsen in her letter-TIME, Aug. 2 wants all of us to take down our hair and weep over the sad state of affairs endured by America's domestic servants. These poor souls who work 24 hours per day for almost nothing, and are cast into the mustiness of the family cellar when not in use. are few and far between. High wages or low wages, the average domestic servant employed in the American home is about as belligerent, independent, and uncooperative as a "spoiled child." They do less and expect more out of life than does...
...Cherbourg by means of seagoing tenders last week. Still more vexed was the Municipality of Cherbourg which completed on May 1 a magnificent new $12,500,000 deep-water harbor and docks at which liners can tie up. Even the public celebration of Cherbourg's achievement, for which sad-eyed President Albert Lebrun of France was rushed down from Paris (TIME, Aug. 7), did no good. Up to last week not a single liner had used Cherbourg's docks, temptingly emblazoned with the arms of the City of New York...
...Musician Arenkoff was appointed conductor of the Phil harmonic Orchestra, John was told off to help him get settled. This was a pleasant enough job, and when Arenkoffs wife Nina arrived, John adored her at sight. Nina was intense: she often wept quietly for hours because life was so sad. She was also very beautiful and (according to Author Horgan) intelligent. Her principal fault was the fault of angels - ambition; she could not settle down anywhere with out trying to set the place spiritually to rights. In Dorchester she soon made a series of grand sensations. She made and wrecked...
There was a sad moment when Rome heard how the 24 seaplanes, which flew neatly from Newfoundland to the Azores, were cut to 23. Capt. Ranieri's ship...
...choose our character as we choose our clothes? Of course, its depressing to think that we women may choose them with as much obedience to fashion and uniformity as we do hats and dresses. Are egos being worn long this year? Is the high fashion a gentle melancholy, a sad haunting quality? Or perhaps for winter garb a super-optimism, a robust go-ahead character with nothing to learn but humility." A stranger walked into the shop of a Salem, Mass, bootblack, said he was a schoolboy friend, asked for a shine. When he offered to pay the bootblack remarked...