Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defend himself). It lacked good taste and was an unfair picture of a fine school. I would not condemn a man for writing an unfavorable criticism against my school if he had a sound basis for it, but I'm sure you do not realize what a sad mistake you have made...
Last week Louisiana went to the polls and cast a record primary vote which gave Earl Long a better than 100,000 margin over his nearest rival, "Sad" Sam Jones. Ex-Governor Jones had stood on the more prosaic platform of "good government...
Viscount Hall, First Lord of the Admiralty, had a sad announcement to make before the House of Lords. Five of His Majesty's oldest and most revered men-o'-war, once the symbols of Britain's might, had been ticketed for the scrap yards. Said Hall: "The First Sea Lord and I feel like two padres conducting the funeral service of a number of old friends...
Unfortunately, the play suddenly goes to pot as a thriller by trying to be something more than that. The characters start acting noble, the conversation turns rich and strange, the situation slowly drains away. The sad thing is not that the ending lacks punch, but that it altogether lacks point...
...author of this first novel is only 23, but his literary promise has already caused a flutter in Manhattan publishing circles. When Editor Cyril Connolly of England's highbrow Horizon visited the U.S. last year (TIME, Oct. 20), he noted with sad alarm...