Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McHenry case, front-paged the child as the "upsidedown stomach girl" (TIME, March 11). Anticipating that Massachusetts Medicine would promptly call him on the carpet and demand his explanation of all this publicity, Dr. Truesdale forehandedly asked for a hearing, got one, then last month wrote a long, abject "Letter to the Medical Profession," setting forth the entire case in the New England Journal of Medicine. Excerpts...
...before others did--no deceit. And yet it was so tenderly conveyed. Then how can I be other than honest. Must I get conventionally drunk and hypocritically paint the town? My friends tell me I'm a fool. Where's your pride, they say. It's lost in abject adoration that will last forever...
...Algebra examination into the examination with him. In defense of the last, the student claimed that it was the accepted custom except for the first fifteen students who were not supposed to carry the answers. But the culprits were all re-admitted after writing a series of abject apologies, because the college could not afford to lose the business...
...thundering airplane advertising Crawford's Cream Crackers overhead. Last week Their Majesties had the satisfaction of knowing that $25,000 has been paid to expiate this lèse-majeste. To Liverpool papers William Crawford & Sons, Ltd. sent under no compulsion, except the mighty smash of public opinion, the following abject letter...
...them quiet he makes Harpo his chauffeur, appoints Chico secretary of war. In the course of conducting their "spy business," Harpo finds three opportunities to run after young women. Chico successfully restrains him. When Chico is tried by Freedonia's supreme court, Groucho feels sorry for him. "This abject specimen . . ." he says. Says Chico: "I abject." When Freedonia finally gets into war, its armies are superior to those of most mythical kingdoms because they contain monkeys and elephants, but they sustain a shameful, shattering defeat...