Word: dejectedness
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Service for Ladies (Adolph Menjou). The most perfect headwaiter in Paris, whom even kings know by name, goes vacationing to a winter sports colony in Switzerland, in order to be near the lady of his love-at-first-sight. There a thousand trifling circumstances force it upon his uneasy conscience...
DIVOTS-P. G. Wodehouse-Dorem ($2.50). The Oldest Member still sits by the first tee watching people drive off and remembering- remembering so voluminously that he has to attach himself to his victims' coattails and drag them down to get an audience. Glad to say, the reader needs dragging...
Died. William E. Knox, 64, onetime (1925) president of the American Bankers' Association; by shooting himself while in the restroom of the Bowery Savings Bank. He went to work for this bank 40 years ago, was elected president in 1922. For several recent months he had been in poor...
U. S. Army recruiting officers are expected to be good salesmen. Upon the city streets they often select their dejected-looking prospects, slap them on the backs, say: "Brace up ... be a man . . . join the Army ... it is warm now down in Texas and Georgia; there are hopes and thrills...
She said: "My husband was the most surprised man in Poland when the troops which he had called upon to protect him against his enemies swept him away at the head of a revolution. He literally dropped the book which he was reading and seized his sabre. I know that...