Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leather through the night. We then hear a crash, and back through the drifting fog comes the distraught figure of the sister-in-law. Next day in the London domicile there is the Chatterton scene, in which her ladyship sacrifices her reputation to save her brother from mortification and despair. We are left with a fleeting glimpse of Mr. Lukas at the wheel of a powerful car, on the way to the English equivalent of a justice of the peace. He would probably make Miss Chatterton a very good husband, but we sincerely trust he lets her do the driving...
...abolition of a ruling "forbidding the parking of girls on fraternity porches during the daytime," and threatening, if these demands were not complied with, to call a strike "against all extra-curricular activities." Here are real issues and a threat of real action. Let those who despair of American students note the incident and take courage; for the spirit of Lexington and Bunker Hill is not dead. Consider a strike against all extra-curricular activities with the baseball season nearing its culmination and outdoor theatricals and Commencement festivities approaching! The blood in the snow at Valley Forge becomes pale pink...
...Steffens came into national prominence with his series in McClure's Magazine on the "shame of the cities": factual but highly colored articles exposing the corrupt politics of Philadelphia, St. Louis. Minneapolis, Pittsburgh. From firsthand, expert knowledge of political crooks Steffens gradually came to like them, began to despair of righteous people, to disbelieve in the value of reform. Some (but they would be illadvised) might take him for a cynic. In his estimates of the history he shared he is realistic; only in his prophecy does he tinge his phrase with a shade of bitterness...
...flocked to the hotel with messages of condolence. Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians called, so did ex-Empress Zita of Austria (Alfonso gave her refuge in Madrid after her downfall). So did Prince Nicholas of Greece, Grand Duke Dmitri of Russia. After a day hectic with worry, exhaustion and despair, word came up that Marie of Rumania was downstairs...
...extent of the scene, the background vastness of Russian life. Clim never wanders far from Moscow nor from his self-interested, skeptical observer's viewpoint, but the scores of characters that throng the story come from many outskirts, are of every tinge of political conviction, agnosticism or despair. Clim's history winds through real events, from the coronation of the late Tsar through the Russo-Japanese War to the Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905) in St. Petersburg?the dress-rehearsal for the 1917 Revolution. Recognizably real figures hover on the edges of the action: Lenin, Trotzky; you hear Feodor Ivanovitch...