Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When he saw a chance, he fled, and surrendered to the U.S. Army. After three months in prison camp, he was released. He feels he has lost time to make up, and a good many things yet to say in his character dancing. Says Kreutzberg: "I am a very sad person, a very funny person, and a very silly person. And they all want to speak...
...Wilder is sad about this. "Neither her company nor her books," he says, "were for those who have grown tired of listening. It was an irony that she did her work in a world in which for many reasons and for many appalling reasons people have so tired...
...reform movements in New York, "attractional harmony and passional hygiene . . . water cure and Graham Bread"; the burly tall tales of the Far West where Joaquin Miller, "the greatest liar living . . . half a mountebank and all the time a showman," turned out crude, vigorous sketches of pioneer life; the sad whimsies of the post bellum South, where Constance Fenimore Woolson's "imagination lingered over the relics of the ancient South, the tumbledown battered houses and forlorn plantations...
...multi-million dollar "historical" drama. 'Yet yesterday, in more or less unexpurgated fashion, Amber and her playmates opened a probably interminable run at a couple of the smaller Boston cinema emporia. This may be liberalism of a sort, or this may only be a sign of bluenose forgetfulness, but, sad to say, it doesn't represent any kind of progress in the matter of quality...
Mahatma Gandhi's confidante, ex-secretary and the present Indian Health Minister, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, testified: "Gandhiji is very sad today. He has told me repeatedly that he is experiencing the pain and anguish of a thousand daggers pierced in his body...