Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope but in despair, in the weighing of different deaths, in a whisper passed with a plate at mess, along a file at exercise, in a package slipped under the table in the visitors' room, a stolen knife, a gun under the grey clothes?so prison breaks begin, nobody knows just how. One morning last week at Auburn. N. Y., an appointed moment came. Father Donald Cleary, the prison's young chaplain, found a strange party in one of the corridors...
Bethel Church's director of education. Orville Brummer, resigned with Pastor Helm. Said he: "Since it is finally impossible to teach children much more at any given time than their seniors will practice, I despair of any large scale success in teaching children principles of brotherhood in an exclusive church...
...winter he was to fly over the South Pole, but preferred to organize Alaska Airways Corp. for The Aviation Corp.* Last month Eielson flew to the rescue of two icebound fur ships. One trip was made successfully (TIME, Nov. 25). On the next trip he disappeared. Friends did not despair. They recalled Eielson's forced landing in 1927 when he and Sir Hubert were a fortnight walking in over the pack ice east of Point Barrow...
...wants to keep her farm, to get a husband, to have a baby. The first two ambitions she easily achieves, but with the third she has trouble. The scandal (which her fellow-villagers lap up but which will not greatly move the reader) enters when she turns in despair from her husband to another man, for procreative purposes only. The results are unfortunate: though she produces a son she loses her husband's love, eventually her son's respect, finally the farm. The Natural Mother is a worthy book, realistic to a degree, not noticeably shocking but definitely...
...Reiland, "greatly disappointed," did not despair. For he too had legal counsel: Lawyers Robert Fulton Cutting, civic-minded Manhattan millionaire (TIME, Feb. 14, 1927) and George Woodward Wickersham, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney-General, now chairman of President Hoover's law-enforcement commission. They had assured him that the prayer book's prohibition refers to "church" in the sense of "congregation" and would not apply to the loan of a building. Though he tactfully yielded to the bishop's "official admonition," Dr. Reiland felt his legal position was as good as his bishop...