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...huge, volcanic rock on the tilted coast of southwest Arabia about 100 miles from the mouth of the Red Sea. Romans called the neighboring territory Arabia Felix. Kipling, with a sharper eye for the facts, called Aden "a barrick-stove." It is one of the hottest, most forlorn spots in the British Empire, of which it became a part just a century ago. Its acquisition as Queen Victoria's first colony made the young virgin Queen very happy. She, the Romans and Aden's Governor, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Bernard Rawdon Reilly, who says he likes his rock-ribbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADEN: Happy Arabia | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...prattling Gablers, sycophant Varlets, forlorn Snakes, blockish Grutnols, fondling Fops, doddipol Joltheads, slutch Calf-Lollies, codshead Loobies, jobernol Goosecaps, grouthead Gnat-Snappers, noddiepeak Simpletons, Lob-Dotterels, and ninniehammer Flycatchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...British proposal to settle German refugees in their East African colonies was labeled "a forlorn hope" by Dewent Whittlesey, associate professor of Geography and expert on Africa, in an interview with the CRIMSON last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Whittlesey Doubts African Plan for Refugees | 11/25/1938 | See Source »

...late William Jennings Bryan, beat the late Clarence Darrow in court and convicted John Thomas Scopes of the crime of teaching evolution in a Dayton, Tenn. public school. (Another figure in that fantasy was Defense Attorney John Randolph Neal of Knoxville, who last week was defeated in his own forlorn race for the Senate.) After the Dayton furor, Tom Stewart returned to obscurity and to repeated re-election as attorney general in Tennessee's 18th judicial district. A competent trial lawyer, fanatical bird hunter, Methodist, he campaigned under Crump-McKellar direction simply as a Roosevelt New Dealer who would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Surprise Ending | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...Just one more question. Is Harvard an odds on favorite or does it have a fighting chance. Has it been picked to win or is it a forlorn hope...

Author: By Morgan O. Preston, | Title: Cliche Expert In Milk Street Interview Claims Harvard or Yale May Win | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

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