Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Good soldiers die too easily. This sad fact has been commented upon by the commander of every army from Julius Caesar to Chiang Kaishek. In the Shanghai battles of last winter against Japan, the19th Route Army, best drilled, best equipped, made a name for itself that rang around the world, but in building that name, 8,000 good soldiers died and had to be replaced by recruits. The new recruits did not drill as well, and they had ideas of their own, no part of a good soldier's equipment. The 19th Route Army is still China...
...that Mr. Pollak had had muscular heart trouble of long standing and some kidney ailments. When the question was put to him squarely . . . he stated it to be his opinion that Joe Pollak had died of a bullet wound in his head, thus ruining the last hope of his sad-eyed widow that he might have died of something else...
Herex: "The cast, though accidentally chosen, was splendid for type. . . . The star, Dorothy Pollak, pretty enough to get by if she knows her lines, and simply but smartly dressed in the funeral finery she wore on the sad occasion when she tried to hurl herself into the late Joe's grave (see earlier installments...
Last week there was an announcement of changes at Philadelphia. Depression makes a difference. In Boston this summer it seemed to make audiences prefer sad music to merry music (TIME, July 18). In Philadelphia next season, with the sanction of Conductor Stokowski, the programs will be "almost entirely devoted to the acknowledged masterpieces." The directors of the orchestra feel that "audiences prefer music which they know and love, and that performances of debatable music should be postponed until a more suitable time...
...Sad as Harvard felt over "Copey's" change of residence, there seemed in it a larger significance. It marked the passing of a style. A newer generation of pedagogs, at Harvard as elsewhere, has eschewed picturesqueness for briskness, practicality and scholarship. Younger savants have degrees aplenty. Charles Townsend Copeland did not bother; the A. B. he earned in 1882 was enough for him. It was fun to be cantankerous and crotchety, teaching Harvard men to write good prose, scaring them when they were late or noisy. The scaring sometimes stuck, too. Shambling Heywood Broun once went. up to Cambridge...