Word: forlornly
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...type of person the photographic mania may present no menace, to the modest, shrinking violet type it is definitely a disturbing element. Life may have been an invited guest to Leverett's party Thursday night, but to most of the other guests it was certainly unexpected. It is the forlorn hope of many, however, that when the preferred list is again made out, a reservation such as that maintained by the HAA will be made: Kindly deposit all candid cameras or any other sort of photographic devices with the doorman...
10th. Up betimes to stand long in the window before dressing myself. Down under me the Charles running along toward the Basin with as little concern as if it never heard of February. Lord, how forlorn the little islands of ice do look! It seems as if they wait hopefully for some sudden chill to freeze them into their accustomed mass. The sky is bright and blue. Methinks much too much for a winter's morning. In my ears hum those pretty lines of Mr. Wordsworth...
...highly improbable coincidence is woven so elaborately and so ingeniously that terrified suspense bangs on the turn of each ironical development. Ghastly irony is this drama's most lethal weapon, and it is called into play so effectively and so frequently that the unhappy spectator is harrowed sick. A forlorn halfwit, for example, driven out of his warm shelter by the gangster villain, picks up a cigarette butt discarded by that villain, and by lighting it unconsciously gives a signal that draws fire from the villain's underling and thereby kills the villain...
...does not report that the last of this species was given up for dead in 1932. Three survivors remained on Martha's Vineyard until 1928, dwindled to a ten-year-old heath cock that regularly appeared at its traditional courting field, ''boomed" and cockled in a forlorn effort to attract a mate. Efforts to mate it with the prairie chicken proving unsuccessful, the lonely fowl abandoned its solitary courtship in the spring of 1930, was seen for the last time in March...
...Becker & Co., investment bankers, had bought Continental Illinois National Bank's holdings in Middle West Corp. Chicago Corp. takes three-fifths of the purchase, Becker & Co the rest. The price: $12 a share, giving Continental, in which Chicago Corp. has large holdings, a small profit on its once forlorn investment in Middle West Corp...