Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flame 500 years before. Thereupon She ceases to be concerned with test tubes and laboratory riddles, becomes an honest and ingratiating example of the pipe-dream cinema, full of glaciers, cannibals, underground kingdoms, mystic vapors and supernatural dilemmas calculated to arouse in audiences a mixture of amazement and despair...
McIntyre: ... No opiate is so deadening as memory . . ; the despair of anxious thought...
...point out that during the World War American lace-workers marched side by side with the soldiers of France in France's dark hour of despair, and many made the supreme sacrifice. . . . When they succeeded in obtaining employment, they were required to contribute, through taxes, from their wages, toward the support of this Government, made necessary partly because France . . . not only defaulted but indeed refused to pay to this country the monies loaned her by America during her dark days...
...true that "critics who believe that the U. S. is death to genius" have adduced in support of their argument the loneliness and despair that embittered Lafcadio Hearn's American days, but it is also true that Hearn did his best creative work (Chita, Youma, Stray Leaves, Some Chinese Ghosts, etc.) before he went to Japan. In technical excellence Hearn's Japanese writings never surpass, and are often inferior to, his earlier work; while even a cursory comparison of the two groups of writings will suffice to show that the Japanese period is marked by a constant waning...
...fallen on fertile ground. From New Deal minds, notably that of Assistant FERAdministrator Lawrence Westbrook, there shortly sprang full-blown a scheme for transplanting Depression-broken Northwestern farm families wholesale to fertile Matanuska Valley. At a stroke the Government would wipe out all their pasts of failure and despair, give them everything they needed for a clean new start in life...