Word: dejectedness
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The show didn't sell well; neither did a subsequent one. In 1919 some of his friends-including Sickert and Max Beer-bohm-gave Walter Greaves a big dinner and a check for ?150. He died, grey and penniless, in 1930 in a London almshouse, dejected because the authorities...
When George Santayana '86, said of the Lampoon, ". . . always late and not always funny," he was, to the best knowledge of the reading public, making one of his most timeless statements. In the very latest issue, for example, there is a somewhat autobiographical piece by a writer who describes himself...
Sympathy & Soup-Mix. She had no office, but put her desk by the main door -to keep a friendly eye on everybody who came & went. An evangelist for education, Emily would find a dejected-looking man on the street and talk him into following her back to school. For hungry...
Land of Romance. As the transport drew near the land, G.I.s swarmed to the rail, eyes misty with Technicolor anticipation. "The sun shone with an idiot brightness, but it was raining"-and out of the miasma loomed "dejected palm trees, a few worn mud buildings, aged water buffaloes . . . and a...
History's shabby discards and their dejected heirs were cashing in on the fact and dialectic of disaster. Diaries, articles and book excerpts by Paul Reynaud, Maurice Gamelin, Benito Mussolini, Hermann Göring and Galeazzo Ciano had already appeared in hundreds of U.S. and foreign newspapers, and there...