Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife allows herself to be cajoled by a mustachioed gigolo. The son of the family becomes a whiskey-sot. The daughter, painfully snubbed by socialites, falls in love with one who does not snub her (Leslie Howard). A denouement of sorts arrives when the son, overcome by alcoholic despair, commits suicide in an airplane. The tycoon then begins to look after his wife. The daughter, it seems, will get the man she wants although by this time he has married another girl...
...Henriette Celarié. Mme Celarié states that this is a collection of true stories and sketches and forthwith you narrate the incident about the woman who had succeeded in cuckolding her husband, returns too late one night, to find him awake, angry, suspicious, herself locked out. Pretending despair, she says she will drown herself in the well if he does not open the door; throws a big stone down the well and hides. The husband, hearing the splash, comes out to investigate; the wife slips in, bars the door. Now it is her turn to shout abuse and call...
...time for rosy fantasies," he added. "... And even more emphatically it is no time for the lugubrious whimperings of those timid souls who see nothing but despair ahead. ... It is high time we segregate . . . the advocates of our retirement from the foreign field in the interests of our hard-pressed rivals overseas 'who need trade more than we do.' Perhaps for the purposes of identification we might decorate those noble-hearted altruists with the Grand Order of the Yellow Streak, while the rest of our more brazenly acquisitive tradesmen, with a full recognition of the gravity of the situation, turn...
Radio's Pedigree. In a somewhat rambling discourse Dr. Millikan said: "The radio is obviously one of the great new unifying and educational forces. . . . If you do not believe in it because you fear its use by the demagogue and the propagandist, then you despair of the ultimate success of widespread ballot governments as such, and you can logically join one of the two world groups, the Soviets, and in somewhat lesser degree the Fascisti, which [attempt] to push the world back ... to the time when the Pharaoh under the strategy of his Prime Minister, Joseph, became an absolute...
...occasionally these Morocaines turn the heavy tables: their wiles are compressed but not crushed by four walls. A woman who had succeeded in cuckolding her husband returns too late one night, to find him awake, angry, suspicious, herself locked out. Pretending despair, she says she will drown herself in the well if he does not open the door; throws a big stone down the well and hides. The husband, hearing the splash, comes out to investigate; the wife slips in, bars the door. Now it is her turn to shout abuse and call on Allah and the neighbors...