Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discovers Victoria, she finds him disturbingly attractive. Antony is happily married, tells her all about his wife, Fontana. Antony falls in love with her, and her allegiance to Sorrel begins to waver. When Sorrel makes senile love to her, when the colony breaks up in mutual recrimination, Victoria in despair debauches herself with one man after another, but never with Antony. Antony leaves for the U. S. on business. Victoria discovers she is pregnant, makes herself ill by overdoses of pills. Fontana comes to find her, is taking her to a hospital for an abortion when they both...
...mind of the House of Bishops, this document was written and read by Washington's Bishop Rt. Rev. James Edward Freeman. Ranging over a number of social and economic matters, the Pastoral found in the world all manner of unholy ills: "greed . . . indecency . . . degeneracy . . . corruption . . . selfishness . . . unrest . . . hunger . . . despair . . . civil strife . . . indulgence . . . vulgarity . . . ambition . . . infamy . . . hatred . . . suspicion . . . disillusionment . . . privation . . . wickedness . . . misfortune . . . folly." But Bishop Freeman waxed most indignant in contemplating that institution which most plagues his Church-divorce. Tolerant as it has been in some respects, the Episcopal Church has never temporized in its battles against divorce...
...face contorted with rage, he paddled the harder, but in vain, and on seeing himself nearing the shore, he leaped overboard with a shrill cry of despair and began to swim away. Though his efforts were heroic, his progress was practically nil, and some thirty seconds later he was rapidly overhauled by a long arm, which ignominiously lifted and deposited him in the bottom of the boat, defeated, but not discouraged, thwarted, but not downhearted, but very, very...
...revived Sinclair EPIC, rising from the ashes of the Democratic convention, drove his opponents to fresh despair while his naïve economic reasoning infuriated them. To them, there seemed to be no effective way of bridling this evangel of nonsense. What Mr. Sinclair proposed to do, as they saw it, was to plant a system of Red State-ownership in California, expand it, without limit, until it crushed private enterprise. EPIC, Mr. Sinclair pointed out, could also stand for "End Poverty In Civilization...
...favor of more responsive women. As long as he had studied mathematics on the sly with his brilliant friend, Abe Parass, he felt some future hope. But now he never saw Abe ; business opportunities were coming thicker ; soon there would be no future. Hugo tried to still his despair with drink and women. Meanwhile his wife had taken a lover. To make Hugo notice, she finally had to tell him; they had a fervid reconciliation, a second honeymoon. Feeling calmer, Hugo then closed up his business, prepared to spend the rest of his life in poverty, studying mathematics. Thunderstruck...