Word: forlorned
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...Pirates, Maglie won the first game 6-2. The Dodgers won the second 3-1, then tucked away the pennant by beating the Pirates next day, "86, behind Big Newk. They did it with authority. Snider and Amoros homered twice, Robinson once. After that, it scarcely mattered that the forlorn Braves took their last game from St. Louis...
Between marriages she felt forlorn. She wrote an essay on hats for a fashion competition (the industry, she observes with justifiable satisfaction, lost a servant but gained a customer) and once thought of selling tubular steel. Instead, in 1928, she married Ernest Simpson, a sometime member of the Coldstream Guards. The Simpsons had a modest but assured London social position, and at Melton Mowbray (in the hunting country, where the Prince of Wales was to establish his talent for falling off horses) Mrs. Simpson fatally met the Prince...
...reporter on the Raleigh Times. She chose for her first novel a story firmly pegged to the news, and applied her newspaper training to the business of telling it straight and clear. Her brief, softspoken, painful tale is absolutely bare of dramatic flourishes, boasts only a few forlorn buds of poetic feeling. Author Daniels is not sufficiently sensuous a writer to breathe physical presence into her characters; yet they think their narrow-bound thoughts, talk their touching dreams and suffer their private agonies most convincingly. As a result, the novel reads rather like a play -it is all there except...
...Primrose," as its passengers fondly called it, was just the kind of road that progress passes by. London was only 50 miles to the northwest, but no factory chimneys thrust their way above the quiet countryside to give the railway a new excuse for existence. Soon a few forlorn trains, carrying in all an average of four passengers a day, were all that was left of the once profitable road. Last year the British Transport Commission, which has done in many a small railroad since nationalization began, closed down the Bluebell and Primrose...
...role he originally played in America as the critical but sympathetic-and wholly indispensable-bearer of America's message. Scott Fitzgerald, says Jacques Barzun, put that message in an epigram: " 'America is a willingness of the heart.' After his death, a hundred thousand more Europeans, forlorn, fleeing wanderers, found out what he meant. To us who came before them, the meaning is not fainter, though more familiar, and we scarcely need Emerson's gentle reminder and advice: 'The ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are, and if we tarry...