Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry W. Peabody of the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement announced: "He will hardly feel at home in the jubilant company of outlawed brewers and Wet attackers of the Constitution. I've known John since he was a boy and his statement makes me very sad...
Ruled Judge Stanger: "These children should go to school. It would be a sad day for America and a step toward feudalism if parents started teaching their own children the sentiments of a family instead of the uniform standards of modern education...
...advertise their universality. Actually, of course, the word derived from the French nouvellcs and is now construed as singular. It used to be a plural. Queen Victoria, for example, wrote: "The news from Austria are very sad...
...words of, as the newspapers have it, our Dr. Lowell that--"that institution is dead which does not change." "I know," said '28, "but the fountains, what about the fountains, will they play in the quadrangles?" Alas, no one knew, though the lip thatch lifted to impart the sad news that in the Yard he found no fountains. "Ah, the old order . . ." said '28, who felt he had a flair for words--he had been in Bio-Chemistry...
This is the story of the fountains. Here is the superior detachment of '95, the sweet, sad memories of '28, the slumbrous indifference of '35. And with whom does the Vagabond range his forces? There can be but one choice, but one loyalty--with '28. '95 is too old and '35 is too young, but we, in our time, we have known. Give back the Cambridge heat, the long drawn chuckle, and the water sparkling in the moonlight. The Bourbons have gone, but the Lily remains. Guy Fawkes is dead, but they hunt him out each year in quivering candle...