Word: laments
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Brisk and businesslike was the annual report issued by Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament last week. Addressed neither to the President-to whom the department is dear-nor the Congress, it was the last of the nine reporting departments to make its statement. Secretary Lament wasted no time in probing the causes of the Depression, made instead the following observations...
...should have no place on the Tiger's schedule. The gold nugget in the H--Y--P President's Agreement of the early twenties was its ban on inter sectionalism: and the Princetonian of that day hailed the passing of cross-country rivalry "as a mark of progress." We lament its return as a mark of regress, and predict that in the far distant, but far saner future only natural rivals will do battle...
...lines as Shakespere wrote them indicate that he intended Shylock to be a mixture of good and evil. At one moment you laugh at his tears for his daughter and his ducats, but the sincere lament that follows immediately after for the loss of Leah's ring certainly arouses anything but scorn. Again, when Bassanio and Antoncate comedy, and Shylock a wretch who gets his just deserts, but he is not a stage villain of Gothic blackness. Instead, Mr. Moscovitz shows a fusion of contradictory emotions: gile and hate mixed with love and sincerety, a true Shakesperean character...
Engaged. Austin Lament, Oxford student, son of Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont; and Nancy L. Sullivan, of Boston and Asolo Veneto, Italy...
...right? Not one manly, valiant step on his part. Cheap gestures and cheaper words. . . . The affairs of the first city in the world are presided over as if these were a Coney Island Mardi Gras. . . . ! Such a city as New York deserves as mayor a Dwight Morrow, a Thomas Lament, a Herbert Hoover or an Al Smith...