Word: forlorner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certain Choice. Regardless of the temper of the people as indicated by last year's or last week's election, the renomination of Herbert Hoover is almost as good as accomplished. Against him is only one formal and forlorn candidacy?Dr. Joseph Irwin France of Maryland (TIME, April 30). Dwight Whitney Morrow, on whom Wets pinned dreamy hopes, is dead. A vague stirring of Liberals for William Edgar Borah, with talk of cash support, received no encouragement from the Idaho Senator. The rank & file of the Republican Party may not be enthusiastic about their national leader but they have little...
Never has Socialist Thomas been elected to any public job. But the Wickersham endorsement heartened forlorn independents. Perhaps a political miracle might happen. On that basis the potent New York World-Telegram declared for Candidate Thomas in a stirring editorial, cartooned him as outrunning lame Col. Carrington. Tammany-burdened Mr. Levy. No other New York newspaper, however, would throw its support to what seemed doomed to be always a lost cause...
...patriotic grounds. But in days when no Atlantic fleet makes any money to speak of, and with Britain's greatest Royal Mail losing millions, the prospects for an American fleet in the New York-Europe run, with the extra handicap of high wages and Prohibition, were indeed forlorn...
...universal on stage and screen. The soldier (Kent Douglass) seems naif but not absurd; his stepfather (Frederick Kerr) is a magnificently deaf old gentleman whose grunts and questions are not only real but funny. Mae Clarke as the girl gives the best performance of her short but competent career. Forlorn but hardboiled, she remains plausible even when she has hysterics; in the scene with the soldier's mother, she is curt and sullen instead of pathetic when she says: "I wanted you to know I could have married...
...exciting play of incident illuminated this story as it was told on the stage. The dark background of the house, squalid, heavy and forlorn, held it together and suggested that, in all other similar city houses, there might be similar stories, as there were surely similar incidents. The camera's disadvantage lies in the fact that its lens is less efficient than the human eye: to show a head poked out of a second-story window, the camera must omit the group on the front stoop. When far enough away to show the whole house...