Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian magazine, Oggi, picked up the story of Francesco's 24 years of forlorn wooing, and sudden notoriety succeeded where all the years of defeat had not. Last week Francesco, 49, wrote a letter to the editor confessing that at long last "I have given up, because with women one cannot win." As for Angela, now a spinster of 40, she could not care less. "He didn't appeal to me when he was younger," she said, "and he appeals to me even less now." When told that Francesco had named her his heir, Angela showed a tougher...
Sell the Cell. In Buffalo, arrested after a noisy quarrel with his wife and a roomer, Melvin Schaffer gladly pleaded guilty to a drunk charge, was forlorn when his wife paid the $10 fine and took him home over his protests that he needed the alternate ten-day jail sentence for a rest...
...bang of a wet firecracker. The movies themselves were such drabs that even critics from the Communist press panned the Communist entries. Worse yet, bikinis were bigger, scandals were smaller, and most of the stars stayed away. Desperate news photographers finally invaded Elsa Maxwell's beach cabana in the forlorn hope of finding someone to shoot. But Elsa turned back the attack with a barrage of pillows and a trumpeted battle cry: "Away! Away, dogs!'' As for the festival, said Elsa, casually hamstringing an infinitive: "It's the most horrible thing to ever hit Venice...
After having amused its breakfast table readers with a bit of a jest at the expense of Dr. Castro's scattered forces, the Times waxed serious. Having already praised Batista's government for its benevolent despotism, it called the insurgent plot "forlorn and suicidal." Thoroughly enjoying itself, in a rare burst of poetry the Times added: "More sophisticated nations see little rhyme or reason for these...
...Missing Pages. Expanded radio and TV coverage could only skim along the peaks of the news, leaving unchronicled, among other things, the inside-page happenings of the community. Many a forlorn Manhattan miss lost the opportunity to exhibit her face, or at least the fact of her engagement or marriage, to her neighbors. Many an executive, promoted as the New Year approached, made the ascent unnoticed. For want of want ads, the unemployed lost job opportunities, apartments stayed unrented, dogs stayed lost. Men were convicted or acquitted without public attention, the scores of sports events went unreported, Christmas charities were...