Word: forlorner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Plaza, meanwhile, were congregated some 1,600 "hunger marchers" who had trucked into the capital from the North and Mid-West by Communist leaders for demonstration purposes (TIME, Dec. 7). These tatterdemalions, a forlorn, hollow-eyed crew of whites and blacks, paraded under police escort singing...
...these are to be charged as part of the ten we should be eating in our own, I do not see how we can keep faith with History 1 and still view with equanimity the prospect of some dining hall closed for the season or perhaps serving one forlorn breakfast...