Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...well described by W. F. Boericke, under the title of "Wing." "A Sea Change," is interesting on account of its land-lubber usage of yachting terms, and occasionally provokes a smile in spite of its crude treatment. "Mad Antony's Wives," by R. W. Beach, a sad tale of life behind the footlights, shows a good deal of observation. All the elements of the genuine college story are combined in "The Crisis," the sport, the grind and the girl. They meet, act with customary heroism, and we must believe live happily ever afterwards...
...Class of Nineteen Hundred and Three extends its heartiest sympathy to you in your recent sad bereavement. Your sorrow, in the loss of your son, is shared by the whole class. He was a man esteemed for his straight-forwardness, his strength of purpose, and his unfailing sincerity. Those who met him for the first time were impressed by his force of character, and closer acquaintance served only to deepen this impression. Not only the class but the entire University suffers deeply in losing from its ranks one whose past was so laudable, and whose future seemed so bright...
...Peer Gynt Suite" played by the orchestra was enthusiastically received. In "Morgenstimmung," where Grieg gives the scene of Peer's death, the joyousness of the daybreak is strangely contrasted with the sad minor strains of which death is the theme. In "Aase's Tod" is expressed the sinking to rest of a soul wearied with the sorrows of life. "Anitras Tanz" is an infectious little dance into which Grieg has introduced an Oriental element. The final movement, 'In der Halle des Berg Konig's," introduces the troll music, an exuberant staccato, illustrative of the grotesque, fantastic, splendor of the unearthly...