Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Concluding this tale, Negro Downs told of "the deep passion of hatred and despair which involuntarily boiled within me," described how he conquered it and subsequently addressed the Council on "What We Expect of Our Church" without once referring to his experience...
That versatile Artist Salvador Dali should be working on a surrealist ballet is hardly surprising. But it was news last week when one of the parts was offered to antic, woolly-wigged Comedian Harpo Marx. The proffered role: "an immobile figure plunged into the depths of total despair, who then emerges from his state of hallucination and goes into paroxysms of the most frantic choreographic delirium...
...same prison cells to which he has consigned so many others. He sits lackadaisically in a rear seat of the courtroom. He is dressed in a dark suit. He is only 47, but his hair has whitened in the past year, and his face is lined with despair...
...godwits are." Assembly Speaker Herbert J. Pascoe, from the chair: "They come from North Plainfield." Assemblymen looked the godwit up, found it is a long-legged, long-billed wading bird "much esteemed for the table." The bill was overwhelmingly passed by the Assembly last week after Mrs. Hand, in despair, said: "I'm sure it's a good bill." But in fact it was a no-good bill, for Federal game laws had already specifically prohibited godwit hunting...
...Austria, Hitler is beginning to realize his long sought-after union of the German peoples. In Switzerland, the placid waters of Lake Geneva lap in the ears of the few remaining statesmen who cling to the ideal of collective security, and in the rest of the world prophets of despair are again preparing funeral services for the League of Nations. Here in America, even while mid-western senators are raising the familiar cry, "We are isolated," legislative machinery to produce more money for the navy rolls into action...