Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Augustine, one of the Roman Catholic Church's Fathers, died at Hippo near Carthage, where he had done mighty work suppressing heresies, 1,500 years ago this year. So the Eucharistic Congress Committee chose Carthage, now the forlorn site of a Cathedral (dedicated to St. Louis), a museum, some ruins and 200 Arab houses, as the scene of the 30th Eucharistic Congress, begun last week...
...windy clearing surrounded by a forlorn forest of scrub pines is the setting of the Naval Air Station in Lakehurst. N. J. Above the plain looms a sombre hangar, home of the Navy's Los Angeles and of other dirigibles when they visit the U. S., a structure so enormous that it has contained two mammoth and two smaller bags all at once. But, even in the Skyscraper Age, size is not everything. The relatively tiny, thoughtfully beautiful chapel may attract quite as much attention as the mighty, bleakly utilitarian hangar...
...risabilities (The Road to Rome, The Queen's Husband). The very modest measure of success that he achieves with this sentimentally serious play is largely due to June Walker and to Glenn Hunter, still boyishly telescoping his words. Between them these two occasionally suggest a forlorn, tender reality...