Word: bereft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan's garish 42nd Street that it was virtually one big runway. A decade ago Mayor LaGuardia, who loved to brandish a besom, swept burlesque and all its trimmings right out of New York City; 42nd Street west of Broadway was left with a flea circus and a bereft feeling. Not until The Hat and his pecksniffian License Commissioner Paul Moss left office did there seem any chance to bring the strippers and the privy jokesters back to the boards...
...Soon after, old Donadieu's water-logged corpse was found under a pier. The villagers wondered: did he fall or was he pushed? Old man Donadieu is merely the first ill-fated character in Author Simenon's latest book - which traces the decline and fall of the bereft Donadieu family through 371 hard-breathing pages. By the time Author Simenon dusts his hands of them, the Donadieus have been involved in three murders, one rape, one abortion, one suicide, and a smattering of cancer, homosexuality, tuberculosis and insanity - quite apart from a daily round of business chicanery, bribery...
...Miss Colbert works and Mr. MacMurray used to, is 100% eager to exploit the romantic bonanza. While the hero is still believed to be dead, it is he who urges the heartbroken young woman to go on the air with a piece of made-up stiff-upper-lipping for bereft American womanhood ("You don't have to," he insists comfortingly); and it is he who urges her to repeat it, next day ("You don't have to," he again tells his employe) for the newsreels. When the hero returns alive, horribly embarrassed because he hardly knows the poor...
Before & behind them companies, battalions, regiments and divisions of the Nineteenth Army still scurried this way & that, like bugs uncovered by the lifting of a stone. On a battlefield long isolated by one of the most precise air operations of the war, they were all but bereft of tanks, bitterly short of food, cut off from all help from their carefully laid supply systems...
...stores. Denver's 70-year-old Agnes Lewis, friend of a generation of Larimer Street down-&-outers, has been almost driven out of business by full employment. Most of her customers have gone uppity, and now insist upon Goodwill's reconditioned articles. Atlanta's Salvation Army, bereft of its peacetime unemployables, must sell most of its articles without repair. San Francisco's salvagers lack trucks enough to pick up the gifts. But difficulties or not, the profits of most U.S. thrift stores were up 25 to 200% during...