Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress, sitting this week, cocked an inquisitive eye toward labor on the levees. William Green, A. F. of L. president, asking for a thorough investigation, exclaimed: "Exploitation of defenseless workers has been practiced in a most vicious and reprehensible...
...wife replied that it was absolutely untrue, that I was going to a hospital to have my physician seek the cause of a feverish condition. Nevertheless, the story went out all over the country that I was suffering from a nervous breakdown. Apparently a man in America is absolutely defenseless against newspaper rascality of this sort...
...duties," boldly retorted Minister Wang. Crash, rip, zip, bang! A frenzied mob of students rushed the Foreign Office, burst through hastily locked doors, hurled chairs and toppled desks, charged in wild pandemonium for Mr. Wang. "Traitor!" they yelled. "You have betrayed China! Death, death to Wang!" Before defenseless Minister Wang could rise, a well hurled inkpot gashed his head. Mobsmen with clubs laid on. The Foreign Minister of China was almost beaten then and there to Death, would have been had not his loyal servants flying-wedged the mob. By fierce work and low punching they rescued Mr. Wang, rushed...
...Ferdinand dropped and how he came to have it, form the motif of this carefully written, 610-page novel, which the Book League has nominated as its May choice. Ferdinand, son of an Austrian colonel, was orphaned young, and his old nurse Barbara became practically his foster-mother. A defenseless but not stupid boy, his youth was unhappy, and he would have taken the course of least resistance into the Church had not a stronger-minded friend rescued him. Then came the War, and once or twice it looked as though that would settle Ferdinand's hash...
...Backing up Scot MacDonald (282 to 201) in his signing of the London Naval Treaty, the House defeated a Conservative motion to "investigate," urged by Winston Churchill who shouted: "Never since the reign of Charles II has this country been so defenseless...