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...widespread fear among businessmen. At Toledo he declared that a Democratic victory would be "the road to ruin." At Utica he denounced President Hoover's opponent as a "trimmer." At Worcester, Mass. he insisted that all who vote for Governor Roosevelt are casting "a vote of despair and forlorn hope-the forlorn hope in the magic of a mere change...
...presumably because it contradicts the prime advantage of their medium-ubiquity. Hotel Continental varies the unity-of-place idea by nearly personifying it. This time the hotel is an old one about to be torn down and the denizens who scamper through its antique corridors are bent on the forlorn gaiety of a farewell party. Mingling with the other guests is a cosmopolitan thief (Theodore Von Eltz) who hopes to retrieve some money which he cached in a fireplace long before. He experiences some trouble getting it because there is a party in the suite where it is hidden...
...ornithologist has discerned 15 species, among which are: two varieties of chickadee, a ruby-crowned kinglet, a black and white junco, a nuthatch, a downy woodpecker and forlorn cedar waxwing...
Three Men and a Woman. Demonstrating that sex can raise its ugly head "down under" as well as any other place on the Globe, Three Men and a Woman is concerned with the doings in a lighthouse on Cape Forlorn, New Zealand. Why the God-fearing keeper (William Desmond) married his lecherous wife (Franc Hale) is something Australian Playwright Frank Harvey does not explain. When her husband goes to the mainland, she betrays him with his assistant (old Melodramatist Walker Whiteside). When an absconder turns up with the loot of an investment company to which her husband's savings...
Throngs of teary Germans gathered forlorn on the Hamburg waterfront when fire gutted the Fatherland's superliner Europa as she lay abuilding (TIME, April 8). They knew that Britons, with whom the Europa was chiefly insured, would pay for her reconstruction and put her on the Atlantic to wrest speed supremacy from the British Mauretania. All the same, they gloomed...