Word: defenselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that propaganda has so far transformed human nature to a point where it is no longer necessary to protect American interests. The enemy is not only within our gates but without and we do not feel the time has come for us to scrap our ships and render ourselves defenseless. . . . Until satisfactory conclusions are reached (at the London Naval Conference) we had rather go forward with equipment to meet any emergency than take a chance that the millennium is close at hand...
...European to name one country where' such conditions do not exist. The immense power which women have over what might be called the national pulse, bolstered by their influence in the education of the next generation, and culminated in some countries by the new power to vote, forces the defenseless male between a Devil of the emotions and a deep sea of domesticity. The only trouble with the present situation is that in this case the women are fighting among themselves, occasions which are usually bitter but unproductive...
...precisely infirm, perhaps, but paunchy, soft, and comparatively defenseless is Citizen Miguel Primo de Rivera, onetime Dictator of Spain, now with his daughters sampling the delights of Paris...
...short for Joyce) is a common, pretty girl with pretty common ambitions. Her widowed mother spoils her, teaches her to be "pure," sentimental, defenseless. Joy wants to be an actress, thinks she is one when she joins Mrs. Rice-Pilkington's third-rate repertory company. She is fired when Mrs. Rice-Pilkington's gigolo makes eyes at her; then she goes to London, tries to get another engagement, loses her good name to get the railway fare home because she thinks her mother is dying. Her mother is well enough to quarrel with her. and Joy goes back...