Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Spain is longer than it should have been. Its principal incentives to hilarity are its hero's facial expressions of bewilderment, despair and false assurance. Sample joke...
...Prime Minister seemed to despair of the dole, deplored "created work and saw hope for recovery only in his long postponed World Economic Conference which he said ought to meet "before Christmas." (Chances are slim that...
...they understated their case, Chairman Straus summed up: "It is not only the Manhattan situation which is rotten, but I can go further and say that Interborough [Rapid Transit Co.] itself was born in iniquity." After seven hours of tumult. President Roberts of Manhattan Railway waved his arms in despair, yelled: "The meeting is yours." The Amster group then elected their own board and went home...
...election for widespread fear among businessmen. At Toledo he declared that a Democratic victory would be "the road to ruin." At Utica he denounced President Hoover's opponent as a "trimmer." At Worcester, Mass. he insisted that all who vote for Governor Roosevelt are casting "a vote of despair and forlorn hope-the forlorn hope in the magic of a mere change...
Juno and the Paycock, by Sean O'Casey. A rich and rowdy tragic poem about an ironically conceived old wastrel who watches his family sink into want and despair with the ineffectual moan: "The world is in a state of chassis...