Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waashing-ton's chubby Senator Dill was all set to carry the Roosevelt power issue up & down the Pacific coast. As soon as he finished junketing through Indian reservations, Montana's vociferous Senator Wheeler would, as headquarters expressed it, "be available for a speaking tour." At McCook, Neb. sad-eyed Senator Norris, insurgent Republican, dabbed paint on his home while awaiting a visit from Governor Roosevelt in whose behalf he will later campaign from Ohio to California. In New Orleans curly-headed, loose-jawed, incredible Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long champed impatiently to take to the hustings and raise...
...tabloid of 24 pages. It contains information about food, cinema, radio, fashions, cosmetics, also many illustrated jokes, fiction, advertising at $400 a page for separate units (Manhattan as one unit, Washington, Richmond, Baltimore as the others) or $700 a page for entire coverage. Such a compendium might be very sad were it not for the fact that Harry Evans writes most of the copy. It is a one-man magazine. He has a tremendous talent for making people like him, and among those who do are most of the nation's electric-lit names. He works hard and circulates...
...reader may also wonder why Poet Benét likes such stumbling-block words as: corsive, accipitrine. mort. On the whole he will probably find Rip Tide moving, though more pathetic than sad...
Surely it is a sad commentary on the supposed purpose of Harvard as an educational institution, that it can find a million for a useless and ugly chapel, but is too poverty stricken to keep open its library. Norton E. Long...
...unreasoning outburst, all too characteristic of American political opinions, has seen fit to employ the terms "red" and "radical" to denote all political extremists. Possibly the confusion is justified, but to the average onlooker it appears founded on hysteria, not upon any understanding of party demarcations. It is a sad commentary or a great portion of the American press that, instead of educating its public to form substantiated opinions, it panders almost entirely to irrational morbidity and unfair prejudice...