Word: forlorned
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...general impression of this last talk with Field Marshal Göring was, in fact, that it constituted a final but forlorn effort on his part to detach Britain from the Poles...
...Forlorn note of cheer: marine underwriters lowered war-risk rates 1% on belligerent flag vessels to and from Europe and on U. S. flag vessels cargoing imports on the northern route; on the southern route, 1½ on belligerent vessels, ½on U. S. ships. Rates both ways for belligerents' vessels had been 7% on the northern route, 7½% on the southern; for U. S. vessels, 2½% on the northern, 2% on the southern. The export rate on U. S. vessels remained unchanged for both routes. The import rate on other neutral flag vessels was held...
...against a fragmentary Polish defense, Russian leaders continued to murmur against the perfidy of the Poles in being whipped so soon. When Russia's military machine began to move, more than 3,000,000 well-equipped, well-trained German-Russian troops were driving in opposite directions against the forlorn remnants of Poland's scattered, shattered, fragmentary armies. Still dizzy with successes, Premier Molotov made a radio address: "Comrades," said he, "men and women citizens of our great country, events arising out of the Polish-German War have revealed . . . the obvious impotence of the Polish State...
Fortnight ago, on Emancipation Day, a large group of Negro celebrities gathered at this forlorn spot, listened to a flowery oration by Publisher Cooke, then paraded past the grave, dropping gladioli and singing "Carry me back. . . ." Among the singers: famed Negro Blues Composer William Christopher Handy, Composer J. Rosamond (brother of James Weldon) Johnson. Meanwhile spontaneous contributions for a James Bland Memorial began to pile up in Publisher Cooke's Philadelphia office. It looked as if James Bland's grave might soon have something better on it than poison...
...girl, Eve Kingsley (Nancy Kelly), who loves young Gareth Tyce (Richard Green), who, by coincidence, is the son of Publisher Bennett's mortal rival, Lord Tyce (Charles Coburn). But what makes Stanley and Livingstone justify the Bennett and Zanuck faith in it is Stanley's long, forlorn safari over a landscape of unearthly birds, noises and people, the last happy chance that brings him face to face with Dr. Livingstone (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). Actor Tracy does not scamp his historic line. Then, in a scene of muted emotional power, Stanley learns that old Dr. Livingstone, whom the world...