Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what may seem on the surface to be a forlorn hope, the Varsity quintet will make a strong bid to tame the Columbia Lions on the New York courts tonight. A return game will be played here Saturday...
...consent to reconvene, the Democratic House leadership had to pay the Republicans a small price: a GOPhilippic by tubby, pudding-jowled Minority house Leader Bertrand Hollis ("Bert") Snell, which was also broadcast. Swelling with professional resentment at the President's extraordinary program, the New Yorker, who shepherds the forlorn 104 Republicans of the House, cried: "Why this departure from our former dignified practice? Does anyone maintain there is any special emergency whereby we should change the rules and precedents that have stood since the beginning of this Government? Is there going to be anything in that message that will...
Unaffected for the time being will be the Household Cavalry, without whose gleaming breastplates and nodding plumes the King &; Queen on state occasions would appear to their devoted subjects strange and forlorn indeed. The very first British cavalry to be mechanized is the brigade now in Egypt. Wrathful natives who today hurl paving stones from a safe distance at these horsed heroes will soon find them riding in British buses equipped with windows of shatterproof glass...
...centres of native culture as Knoxville, Sewanee, and the hills of Tennessee. Most widely publicized of these has been the new agrarian group led by Poets Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, who condemn modern industrialized society, advocate a social order based on small farms, celebrate the forlorn gallantry of the pre-Civil War South. Although they preach the urgent necessity of living close to the soil, these writers advance their views in forbiddingly highbrow essays, in metaphysical verse that seems closer in spirit to the work of T. S. Eliot than to the hillbilly ballads of their...
...next cage roams the forlorn J. Ramsay MacDonald, "after three years as a Peripatetic premier, now here and now there, wandering like a lost soul over the face of the British Empire . . . hated by his former followers and ignored by his Tory colleagues." Winston Churchill, Sir Samuel Hoare, George V, Montagu Norman are less sensational exhibits in the British tent. But before the British Intelligence Service, the Marquess of Reading and Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon. who shifted a fortune of 85 million dollars Mex. to China to escape high taxes, the author pauses, describing their exploits with a shudder...