Word: forlorner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sentenced to death at Flemington in February 1935. Unanimously the 13 voting members of New Jersey's highest court upheld the trial court on all 16 contested points of law, declared that the German carpenter's conviction was "one to which the evidence inescapably led." In a forlorn effort to save Hauptmann from the electric chair sometime before Christmas, defense counsel considered appealing to the U. S. Supreme Court on an unindicated point of constitutional law, to the State Pardon Board for clemency, to State courts for another trial on grounds of new evidence...
...Cold and forlorn...
...burlesque bum. Before that he had been an amateur in direct competition with Joe Cook, Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Fanny Brice on Manhattan's lower East Side. In fact, these striplings once refused to appear in an amateur show with Savo because he was so small and forlorn that the audience always applauded him the prize out of pure pity...
Technically the ruling dealt only with the three cases brought up from the Circuit Court. But there was no doubt last week that Mr. Fox, retreating into his hole, would lose little time pulling the rest of his forlorn litigation in after...
...rather forlorn week is in prospect for the Feslermen, as on Wednesday they meet Columbia's League-leading five, the most sensational and fastest shifting team seen in the circuit for some time, and on Friday they encounter Brown which, until its defeat at the hands of the Elis on Saturday, had amassed a total of ten consecutive wins...