Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gifford Pinchot: General Johnson*. . . I wonder if you ever stay awake at night seeing the faces of the thousands of men and women who are pacing the streets of Pennsylvania towns, jobless and desperate, without resources and with despair in their hearts, because they had faith in your promises and went ahead and organized a union and for so doing lost their jobs, and never a finger in Washington lifted to help them...
...French in their treatment of British trade have been unfair, unjust, and intolerable. No other course is open to Britain. It is enough to drive almost to despair an Englishman who has done all he could to promote good understanding between these countries...
...series of automobile horns around the building, blew them all periodically by pressing a button. When he pressed, the starlings took flight. When he stopped they alighted. Then he sent men with toy balloons on long strings to frighten the starlings from the ledges. The starlings cheeped derisively. In despair he wrote the Department of Agriculture.* Last week the Department suggested that the only remedy might be to use deadly hydrocyanic acid gas-a ticklish job necessitating careful preparations lest Congressmen and bystanders fall dead. Architect Lynn then persuaded the Department's Biological Survey officially to classify the starlings...
Last week, in a fit of political despair, Judson Hannigan, president of the Republican Club of Massachusetts, astounded his confreres by announcing that there was no Republican from this state qualified to run for senator next fall, and that he believed the only solution was to forget about it, and let all good Republicans vote for that perpetual "people's candidate," David I. Walsh. In this way, the party would not fall to pieces over the election of a senator, and could unite in placing a Republican governor into office...
...take him. The Boy screams defiance, pleads for a chance to come of age among the living. Before Death agrees, centuries pass. The Boy is returned to the London of 1934 and the charms of a worldly woman (Judith Anderson). He is torn between joy in his love and despair at her breezy cynicism. At a cocktail party, the Woman, weaving drunkenly among her guests, discovers that the Boy has signed a contract to write for Hollywood. That everyone knows this except herself sends her into a fit of rage. When the Boy comes demurely in she is auctioning...