Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stations and buses that pay off as scenes but bankrupt the play as a whole. The play, furthermore, misses real poignancy from going too plainly in search of it; something of a human being at the outset, Mrs. Watts is nothing, at the end, except pathetic and forlorn...
...twos and threes the band straggled into Memorial Hall. Freshmen with their forlorn, shivering dates stood waiting under the feet of John Harvard, restless upperclassmen tried to study but strained to hear the stirring sounds of "Crimson in Triumph Flashing": the Princeton football rally was about to start...
After generations of heartily helloing freshmen, and an open house atmosphere during party week-ends, the Colgates made a forlorn and lonely safari through the jungle of Harvard indifference. Their cheery hails of greeting were answered (when at all) by a hurried grunt or canted eyebrow...
...visited some of the forlorn, cold, little children [of Kalavryta] in their primitive, unheated houses, partially rebuilt . . . [These] children are available for sponsorship through the Save the Children Federation at $8 per month . . . Readers who cannot sponsor a child but who would like to help may send contributions ... to this organization at the Carnegie Endowment International Center, U.N. Plaza, New York...
When Cartoonist Robert Osborn left the Navy in 1946, he paid his respects to the military with a small book of cartoons entitled War Is No Damn Good! Across its pages strutted a wonderful, viciously funny parade of balloon-shaped generals and admirals, gorilla-faced noncoms and forlorn, tortured G.I.s. Last week Osborn finally paid his respects to civilian life with a book called Low & Inside (Farrar, Straus & Young; $3.75). If anything, the sequel is even deadlier and more acidly humorous than the original...