Word: forlorn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...highly improbable coincidence is woven so elaborately and so ingeniously that terrified suspense bangs on the turn of each ironical development. Ghastly irony is this drama's most lethal weapon, and it is called into play so effectively and so frequently that the unhappy spectator is harrowed sick. A forlorn halfwit, for example, driven out of his warm shelter by the gangster villain, picks up a cigarette butt discarded by that villain, and by lighting it unconsciously gives a signal that draws fire from the villain's underling and thereby kills the villain...
...does not report that the last of this species was given up for dead in 1932. Three survivors remained on Martha's Vineyard until 1928, dwindled to a ten-year-old heath cock that regularly appeared at its traditional courting field, ''boomed" and cockled in a forlorn effort to attract a mate. Efforts to mate it with the prairie chicken proving unsuccessful, the lonely fowl abandoned its solitary courtship in the spring of 1930, was seen for the last time in March...
...Becker & Co., investment bankers, had bought Continental Illinois National Bank's holdings in Middle West Corp. Chicago Corp. takes three-fifths of the purchase, Becker & Co the rest. The price: $12 a share, giving Continental, in which Chicago Corp. has large holdings, a small profit on its once forlorn investment in Middle West Corp...
...chronic state of being asleep up to the knees and threaten to leave me in the lurch. ... I am growing very tottery and had considerable difficulty in dressing this a. m. Even so, I shirk my job and ignominiously retire to blankets and a cheap novel at our forlorn and smelly billet...
...offered superb opportunities for spectroscopic examination. Such novae throw off tremendously hot shells of gas, then subside irregularly and gradually to something like their former faintness. On the other hand some astronomers believe that supernovae, which fade rapidly, become "neutron stars"-small, dead, dense lumps of matter, forlorn wraiths of the cosmos...