Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days past, have we gazed upon nine typewriters, five telephones, one picture (framed) of the 1898 Princetonian Board, and two copies of the 1924-1925 Who's Who and said: this is life, this is glamorous romance, this is newspaper work. But lately our fondness has given way to despair, our feelings have become saddened. And it's all because we must sit silently by and watch our office turn into a Lost Souls Department, a sort of Court of Last Resort...
...Antonio to the Gulf at Corpus Christi. Until his death last month Republican Congressman Harry McLeary Wurzbach had, sheerly by personal popularity, carried the 14th around in his pocket for eleven years (TIME, Nov. 16). To fill his vacancy a special election was called. Democratic leaders raged in despair when six of their party rushed into the contest against one Republican. In far-off Washington President Hoover, nervously aware of the election's significance, called for the returns, studied them with downcast eyes. For him they spelled another defeat because a Democrat by the name of Richard Mifflin Kleberg...
...ostentatiously early. Philomena embarrassed him by promising to leave her husband for him. then made him feel a fool by telling her husband all about it and changing her mind. On the verge of a breakdown Hugo made an unforgivable scene, pulled gossipy Corny Cooke's nose. In despair he confided his trapped feelings to Marianne, wise young daughter of the house. She advised him to go away, stop writing hits, stop being lionized. Gratefully he took her advice, went off into obscurity with the hope of coming back some time...
...pretty, prim Alice Lee of Chestnut Hill, Mass. His courtship like everything else he did was impetuous. He made the poor girl sit in the gymnasium balcony at Cambridge while he, stripped to the waist fought hard but vainly to win the college lightweight boxing championship. Fits of despair sent him moping to the woods whence he was retrieved by worried relatives. Theodore and Alice were married in Brookline four months after his graduation (Oct. 27, 1880). They traveled abroad. He got into politics, went to Albany. On Feb. 12, 1884 was born their first and only child...
...yours a counsel of despair?" asked the Senator...