Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-dozen little Kansas towns, just before each sundown last week, a great melancholy voice was heard wailing sad cowboy songs through the ochre twilight. Citizens investigating the cause of this portent, successively at Liberal, Coldwater, Salina, Herington, discovered a strange motorcade called "Ammunition Train No. I." The sides of a motor van had been let down to form a speaking platform. Generators supplied current for a battery of lights and enough power to send the cowboy songster's voice twanging out over a quarter-mile radius. Parked nearby was a golden brown, 16-cylinder Cadillac. Kansans whose first...
...Colonel had to think fast, and before taking Prince Mihai on to London to join Mihai's sad-eyed mother, Princess Helen, he reported the whole affair to King Carol...
...sad-eyed Negro in blue stood on a velvet-draped stage of the American Art Association, Anderson Galleries in New York last week with his arms full of Sardinian snaphaunces. The auctioneer droned along in his pulpit: "Five, do I hear seven-fifty? Five, do I hear seven-fifty? It's against you in the back of the room. Seven-fifty, do I hear ten" Seven-fifty, do I hear ten-?" All over the room the well-dressed crowd of dealers and socialites signalled their bids with the twitch of a pencil, the jerk of a head...
...they create a moral revulsion in the public mind, are insignificant in comparison with the questionable, though "legal" practices perpetrated by the company in terms of tens of millions of dollars. But the more significant crimes are not amenable to court action under the present laws. It is a sad commentary on our corporation laws that of all the unorthodoxy methods which caused the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to investors in Insull companies, the only basis for action against them is the withdrawal of a few hundred thousand dollars...
...left Clifford, who would not really mind, as he was beginning to have an infantile passion for his middle-aged nurse. The story ends with Connie making plans to go away somewhere, sometime, with Mellors. Aldous Huxley calls Lady Chatierley's Lover "a strange and beautiful book; but inexpressibly sad."What he would call this version of it will doubtless never be printed...