Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remembered U. S. primitives-Currier & Ives prints and old furniture catalogs. lowans bought his new pictures with as much pleasure as conscience. He painted The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover at West Branch. Of his famed American Gothic, portraits of a Mid-Western farmer & wife, Christopher Morley wrote: "In those sad and fanatical faces may be read much, both of what is Right and what is Wrong with America." Most lowans saw on the canvas only the hard, exact details of Iowa. They were flattered that Iowa's boy chose to paint Iowa...
...expected but half-hearted opposition from Mackenzie King's Liberal Party. Other countries were expected to ratify. Delegate Neville Chamberlain seized the occasion of the signing of the pacts to announce that Britain would not return to the gold standard until War Debts and Reparations have been finally settled. Sad-faced Sean O'Kelly, who went home without any agreement with Britain, had helped the Irish Free State by making fast friends of all the other delegates. The other delegations hid four weeks' accumulation of bitterness under polite smiles. Aside from the agreements, the conference had proved 1) that other...
...Southern lady of the old school, helpless product of exaggerated chivalry and Victorian prudishness, may never in real life have been such a pathetic monster as Authoress Glasgow's heroine, but she was at least recognizably similar. This sad story of how a fading Virginia belle tried to taper off into normal old age may affront the shades of Southern colonels but should arouse only wondering pity from a differently complicated generation...
...have been the royalists' choice for King, was in a Ceylon hospital with malaria he had caught while cruising as a midshipman on the British cruiser Enterprise. From Mexico City Spanish Ambassador Alvarez del Vayo called Minister of Public Works Indalecio Prieto by transatlantic telephone. "Why are you sad?" he asked. "Is the revolution succeeding?" Replied Minister Prieto: "I am sad because this call is costing 15 pesetas a minute. The Republic is stronger than ever. Adios...
...college, especially an obscure female church institution, could find plenty of uses for one million dollars. How sad the plight of one which sees $1,000,000 snatched from its grasp! Such was the plight last week of Beaver College at Jenkintown, Pa. (Philadelphia suburb...