Word: dejectedness
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It all starts in a theatrical office properly stocked with fascinating stenographer-chorus-girls. Here we meet the personages in a plot that remains traceable throughout the play--a beautiful society maiden (she actually is beautiful) who wants to be a star; her sus- ceptible and perfectly-dressed papa; her...
Now I wish to speak of oratory and acting, which reminds me of a time that I visited a little New Hampshire school house. After I had surveyed its walls, whitewashed inside and outside, its hard benches and plain blackboard, the unsympathetic teacher and the sympathetic birch rod, an old...
Cowper's life is a very sad and pathetic one. He was always troubled with melancholy, which resulted twice in complete insanity, and was always worried by a dread of everlasting punishment. There was for him a high wall between himself and heaven, which he could never scale. He was...
Saturday morning when the first call for breakfast came, the train was crawling along through a heavy snow storm in the region of Johnstown. As it was no scheduled to arrive till 6.15 and was then about two hours late the officers of the Clubs began to be anxious about...
ABOUT a year ago the eye of Misery, which is ever prone to discern a companion in her woe, might have seen a dejected Sophomore slowly wending his way, with his Lares and Penates heaped on an unpitying cart, to the home of his ancestors.