Word: dejectedness
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In Aquilonia a hollow-eyed, dejected peasant couple passed the royal car carrying the bodies of their two dead children. Immaculate aides-de-camp leaped quickly from the car to help, but the grief-stricken couple shook their heads. They wanted to bury their children with their own hands.
"With the exception of Norris of Nebraska, now dejected and despondent over the hopelessness of his long struggle, and Tom Walsh of Montana, an able man but always vain and sometimes sentimental, the so-called Progressives in the United States Senate are a sorry bunch of weaklings and timeservers. The...
Two years ago the coon-skin coat, at an initial cost of from two to six hundred dollars, was regarded as standard equipment by the sport-model type of undergraduate. Many were entirely happy but a few hopelessly envious and dejected without one. A large number of undergraduates would, however...
There is more to it than that, more to it, even than a sly thrust at Lampy and his humor. For The World knows its Harvard, knows the hopes that come with each Freshman Class and leave again, sometimes, with the seniors. And in it all the great metropolitan daily...
Spaniards of chivalrous and patriotic bent fetched dejected sighs, last week, at an authoritative report that the jaunty King Alfonso XIII has been constrained to consult the Vatican with a view to obtaining annulment of his union with Queen Victoria Eugénie, a tall and regal granddaughter of the...