Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near San Benito, Tex., a posse set bloodhounds on the trail of a band of thieves. When the bloodhounds bounded up, the thieves caught them, tied them together by their collars, hung them over a limb. The pursuing posse took down the sad-faced dogs, again sicked them on the trail. This time the thieves shot the bloodhounds...
...animals are as prolific as the musquash. They breed three or four times a year; spring litters are frequently propagating by autumn. Before Great Britain was the sad example of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1905 five muskrats were taken from the U. S. to Prague. By 1914 their descendants had spread 90 mi. in every direction. In 1927 they covered half of Austria, had invaded Germany, were estimated to number 100 millions...
...Leon Blum, who calls himself a Marxian Socialist, has never been Premier despite the fact that his Socialists have been holding down more Chamber seats than any other party (112 out of 610). For 18 years, sad-featured, droop-mustached Socialist Blum has been looking and talking as though the worst were just about to happen-and this year France has at last felt Depression's pinch. Naturally friends have been saying, "Now's your chance!" and Leon Blum has been campaigning shrewdly, championing money and other things dear to the petite bourgeoisie, despite his Marxism...
...stair rail falls. Actor Conroy's sinister joviality through all this excites a great deal of amused tittering from his audiences, goes far to compensate for but does not prevent the lameness of the farce's conclusion. The hand that flutters to Fay Bainter's sad mouth is the one that bossed the admirable Crichton about last season; the mouth sang Victor Herbert's Dream Girl some years before...
...accompanied by her German husband (Dr. Eugen Franke) but not by her Russian dog, Drushka ("Little Friend''). Said she (in German): "The night I was leaving he [Drushka] ran away to keep a rendezvous. . . . Now he must come by the next boat, all alone. I am very sad about...