Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most big U.S. corporations are so widely owned that stockholders and top management are complete strangers to one another. To Walter S. Mack Jr., president of Pepsi-Cola Co., this seemed a sad thing. By establishing a chummier relationship, Mack thought he might turn Pepsi-Cola's 22,000 stockholders into 22,000 active Pepsi-Cola boosters...
...Allegretti would deserve a medal for endurance alone if he did not have other qualifications. After what must have been a trying ten minutes in "The Ping-Pong Players"--a sad sort of Little Theater Saroyan potboiler that could better have been left home--Allegretti took two widely divergent roles in the Odets, turning in a particularly good performance...
Colorful Cabinet. Even so, there were many who were not amused. Prudish Lewis Carroll found the expression "Damn me!" in H.M.S. Pinafore "sad beyond words," and Queen Victoria decided that what was sauce for the Emperor of Japan in The Mikado was a lot too saucy for her in Utopia, Limited (an almost forgotten G. & S. opera in which members of the British Cabinet were portrayed as blackface minstrels). Certain noble ladies forbore to confess with the mercenary Duchess in The Gondoliers...
...week at the University Theater consists of exhuming eight movies that might just as well have remained in their graves. Though they were all successful pictures, only one, "The Green Years," struggles along a little above mediocrity. Evenly divided between long, sentimental sagas and standard musicals, this is a sad review of the motion pictures in the last few years...
...Pass-Man," that prewar animal who was happy just to get by in his studies, has all but vanished from Oxford. Many veterans are taking speed-up Honors courses, cramming nine terms into five. Sighed one sad Old Oxonian: "The colleges seem to be declining from homes of learning to mere hives of students...