Word: dejectedness
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Honest, middle-aged Tom E. Braniff was dejected as he stood before a luncheon gathering of aviation's bigwigs one day last week at Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania. Subdued and solemn, he accepted for Braniff Airways, Inc. the National Safety Council's 1938 award for middle-sized...
For over two hours the scoop hunter listened through the door, dejected over the fact that he couldn't print what he heard. One of the things that impressed him was: "The telephone bill along of the Demorcratic Committee in Washington is $50,000 a year."
When he was eleven, Elmer Gantry had his first attack of periodic ophthalmia (blindness). Two years later the attacks came so frequently that all he could do was to stand listless and dejected in his stall, graze haltingly through the pasture.
Barbara Carroll, 17, had a fine time in South Paris, Me. last week. She sold autographed pictures of the county courthouse for 25? the copy, received stacks of fan mail, including offers of marriage, posed fetchingly in play and bathing suits for innumerable photographs. With some of her tips from...
The hippopotamus, which looks like its sesquipedalian name, is actually so called because a Greek traveler thought it resembled a "horse of the river." Like horses, most hippos are kind and gentle, though a few are extremely cruel at times. Ordinarily docile is Rosie, 15-year-old, 3,000-lb...