Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real battle front of education today lies in that sector where reside the philosophers of crisis. From these prophets of despair come cynical pronouncements as to the futility of all educational effort to change the social order. They point out that man in groups ever is moved by passion and not by reason. They foretell the inevitability of catastrophe. Other and more terrible world wars are inescapable...
That night he was supported by Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain who made a long speech to the House of Commons urging the Conference to go on & on. "Let us keep contact with all other countries pleaded gaunt, earnest Mr. Chamberlain. "Let us not despair, even now, of achieving results of solid, practical value from the Conference...
...Washington a 30-year-old married woman lost her job with the Interstate Commerce Commission. She went home in despair, turned on the gas, died. ¶ At Dayton a Spanish War veteran who had been drawing $60 per month was removed from the pension rolls, ushered out of the National Military Home. At midnight he called on Col. Vernon Roberts, the Home's chief medical officer, shot him dead. ¶ In Washington an aged clerk was turned out of the Senate. He took poison, cut his throat. ¶ In Philadelphia an ex-Army captain wrote to President Roosevelt: "Suicide...
When he and his brother Mertyl went off to board with an aunt and go to school, Vridar was constantly being forced into fights. Always frightened, when it came to the point he went berserk with despair, usually rushed his startled opponent off his feet. Then, just when life was getting a little easier, girls came into the picture. Painfully shy and equally susceptible, Vridar fell prey to another set of bullies. The story leaves him still in his teens, in the comic-tragic age, haunted by the chimeras of Sin and Nobility. Between the two Vridar...
...Conference's chances of success, Scot MacDonald cried: "The world is being driven on a state of things which may well bring it face to face . . . with a time in which life revolts against hardships and the gains of the past are swept away for forces of despair. . . . How dark are the depths of misery and unsettlement which have still to be gone through? No one who has surveyed the facts . . . can doubt for a moment . . . that a purely national economic policy in this modern world is one which, by impoverishing other nations, impoverishes itself at the expense...