Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bryan and a man named Bugg. He told funny stories (the widow at her husband's funeral who was so surprised at the preacher's eulogy that she sent her son up to look into the coffin to see if the dead man really was his "paw"); sad stories (the stepson who received a pair of brogans at Christmas while the other children got fine shoes and then complained that they hurt him not in the feet but in the heart). He treated the Senate to a long legendary account of Roland of Roncesvalles who "guarded the gate...
...cool weather, holding on behind them. Then, in the last mile. De Bruyn began to work his well-muscled legs faster in their choppy stride. He was 200 yd. ahead at the finish, with Hennigan second, Kyronen third, De Mar 18th, McLeod 27th. Far behind McLeod straggled a sad marathoner named Charles E. Bradford of Lowell, Mass. He was seized by a policeman as he finished the race, hustled to court where his wife was suing him for maintenance...
...Thames to settle over the city. St. Paul's rolled up in the distance, the Bridge stood like ghostly battlements, and the finger of St. Martin's in the Fields was an old woman in an old torn veil. It was quiet end ancient and very sad...
...mask is sad. But under flesh and skin
...such a sad extreme politically? Can our President be frightened into signing a bill, lest he lose reelection? Is a Congressman's possession of a conscience, and his ability to rely upon it to be termed "weakness...