Word: forlorned
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From ever forgetting the forlorn figure of the unemployed; from failure to see that our social fabric is as shabby as his coat, and that our heads must bow in equal shame with...
...this time the Confederacy was a forlorn hope. Morgan's raids were no longer either so daring or so successful. A raid into eastern Tennessee was his last. One rainy morning the house was surrounded by blue troopers; no sentinel had given the alarm. While rifles popped, Morgan dashed out through the garden, dropped dead. At his funeral in Richmond the military escort had to abandon the procession, double-time off toward the threatened defenses...
...days later, Lott & Stoefen had more trouble than they expected beating Harold George Newcombe Lee and George Patrick Hughes, 7-5, 6-0, 4-6, 9-7. The forlorn chance that the U. S. might repeat its performance of the week before disappeared next day when Perry beat Shields, 6-4, 4-6, 6-2, 15-13. In the last match of the series Austin beat Wood...
...Central City's Opera House and its 750 hickory seats were redolent of the past, there was nothing antique last week about what happened on the stage. Walter Huston made Othello a modern hero, lively, admirable and forlorn. Nan Sunderland's Desdemona was a graceful and impulsive lady, much more exciting than the demure Desdemonas who were in vogue when Central City last saw Othello. Kenneth MacKenna, whose brother. Scene Designer Jo Mielziner, was in the audience, made lago a villain of monstrous subtlety and venom. The Jones' sets, sparkling with Venetian color, were amazingly well handled...
Give Us This Day (by Howard Koch; Francis I. Curtis & Richard Myers, producers) is a rather forlorn case of author's indigestion. The good idea which Author Koch has bitten off and cannot chew is that of a family waiting for an old lady to die and leave them her $200,000. They wait 15 years while the old ogress, who never appears on the stage, clings to life in her room upstairs, taps signals on a steam pipe to summon the heirs & heiresses for obsequious ministrations, keeps them on tenterhooks by changing her will every so often...