Word: regrets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictured himself as a "nuisance dedicated to sanity." His definition of sanity embraces a good many statesmen and policies: Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, armament races, Nonintervention, and Prime Minister Neville (Chamberlain's political "realism." Some of the personages scared by his corrosive brush have had good reason to regret that young David did not become a bishop as his mother wished, instead of becoming the world's deadliest political cartoonist...
...tendered resignation of Professor Burbank from the chairmanship of the Department of Economics will cause regret not only among his large body of personal friends, but among the members of the University as a whole. The retirement of such an able administrator from the helm of the largest department in college leaves the department adrift at an especially crucial moment. Yet one cannot help but admire his sparkling career in such a responsible position and feel that his relief from duty is well deserved...
Jamie Ferguson fled Scotland when the Stuart cause brought disaster on its adherents. He joined an uncle in Suncook in the Province of New Hampshire, learned woodcraft under old Toby, an Indian. Successful in the lumber trade, he married Dorcas Drew, lived to regret it. After he joined the Rangers of his friend, Captain Robert Rogers, Jamie fought in campaigns around Lake Champlain and Ticonderoga, while Dorcas dallied with his intriguing, traitorous Cousin Hubert, a British officer. Jamie hardly minded, but when Hubert's dark eye fell upon Purity Stiles, whom Jamie now loved, that was a different matter...
...French Government is perfectly free to refuse even a discussion of these problems as so far it has done with its too-often reiterated and perhaps categoric 'Nevers.' But will it not regret if the breach presently dividing the two nations becomes so wide that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to heal...
...motorists to whom these are simply figures, Lest We Regret offers practical illustrations...