Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate was already in recess when George V died. Few minutes after the House met next day, Foreign Affairs Chairman McReynolds solemnly uprose to offer a resolution that President Roosevelt be requested to communicate the House's sorrow & sympathy to the British Government and "that as a further mark of respect to the memory of King George the House do now adjourn...
Motoring to the British Embassy, the Canadian, Irish and South African Legations, Secretary of State Hull conveyed the official condolences of the U. S. Government to the Governments of the British Commonwealth. The sorrow of the people of the U. S. was bespoken by President Roosevelt, who added in his message to Edward VIII: "I had the privilege of knowing His Majesty during the War days, and his passing brings to me personally a special sorrow...
...behooves us who love football to remember that colleges also have pride in traditions and achievements that far outshadow the winning of a few games. If we forget it we may wake up some day and find that the dog has, with some pain, but no great sorrow, detached his tail...
...Nations commission decided that for the Ualual Incident neither Italians nor Ethiopians nor anyone else was to blame (TIME, Dec. 24, 1934). By that time, though, the Man of the Year was fully in the making. He flashed off cables smoking hot with pathos, righteousness, defiance and more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger which made front pages throughout Christendom. It was sheer genius for Haile Selassie to deny that Italians used dumdum bullets instead of charging them with that military offense. It was again genius for him to cable out that in Ethiopia the local press had been ordered...
...their advice on credit management to the Federal Reserve Board. Last week, for the fourth time in 1935, the members of those august bodies met in Washington, looked at one another with sad eyes. They had met to part but even their parting was not allowed to be sweet sorrow. A grave problem and bitter issue was on hand to discomfit even their valedictory...