Word: dejectedness
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The dejected-looking man who sat down at 4:45 seemed to realize that he had made the worst speech of his career and one unworthy of a wartime Prime Minister. For the rest of the afternoon and far into the evening he sat and listened to critics who, beginning...
Nor were dejected Britons bucked up by his gloomy forecast that the Nazis "are prepared and would not scruple to invade Holland, Belgium or both. Or it may be that their savage hordes will be hurled against their innocent neighbors in the southeast of Europe. They might well do more...
Enough Flexibility. Although no two experts could wholly agree on detailed programs, no observer could doubt that ten years of depression had given the U. S. the greatest sociological education in its history. Incorporated into its Government were basic social laws no one of which could have been calmly argued...
When the 1936 Olympics came round, Swimmer Holm was doing pretty well as a night-club singer, with her husband's and other bands. She started her celebrated trip on the S. S. Manhattan on the wrong foot with the U. S. Olympic Committee by trying, unsuccessfully, to pay...
Secretary Hull sat dejected, slumped in his chair. But Franklin Roosevelt, taking this final wallop in his Neutrality fight, was more resilient. He informed the Senators that he would carry the issue to the People. (Senator Borah growled that, all right, the People should hear the other side, too.) He...