Word: forlorned
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...page to her; she cut all other parts with mighty shears; she threw out her lines like strings of sausage out of a sausage machine. But on the great night itself, after splitting her green jacket up the back, Actress Jenkinson collapsed in a heap. The heap was a forlorn old woman...
Islam. Islam signifies Peace, and as such it has long been an anachronism. It designates the whole Moslem world which, taking the holy city of Mecca as its central point, stretches to the west as far as Morocco; to the north, beyond the forlorn steppes of Russia; to the east, as far as the gates of Tibet and the East Indian Archipelago; to the south, into northern India...
Cake could never have formed the sinews that waged Boston's wars and built her towers. Baked beans were the food that gave the force to Boston armies, the eloquence to Boston orators, the life to Boston industry. Now, however, the bean sits humble and forlorn while in the place of honor the cake reposes in frosted complacency. Not so once. In Puritan days marriages in Boston were solemnized with the following oath, "To you I shall be true till Boston goes back on ye bean", murmured the wedding guests. "Till Boston goes back on ye bean", echoed the walls...
...Barbara. A forlorn sample from the musical comedy factories slipped rather abruptly into town under this tepid title. Owing to fancied labor troubles in Boston, the production opened without benefit of preliminary tests. Witnesses declared that Boston was blessed by the loss. Writh the exception of Jack Hazzard and a tune or two, Bye, Bye, Barbara was pale entertainment...
...those forlorn, home-made pieces which the powers behind the American theatre feel it best we should see and dispose of early in every season...