Word: forlornly
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...Haverhill, Newburyport, and Amesbury have reached very considerable proportions. A total of ten thousand five hundred shoe workers have walked out of the factories in protest against low wages, poor shop conditions, and non-recognition of unions. The progress of the strike so far, however, has been a forlorn revelation of Labor's impotence in the depression...
...shows a clownish foreign correspondent misbehaving and manipulating news in Moscow. Buckley Joyce Thomas spends part of his time composing highly personalized dispatches for the Chicago Globe, more of it in making love to his employer's mistress, stealing press passes that belong to his confreres, badgering a forlorn cousin of the Romanovs who happens into his office. His amorous intrigues lose him his job; he gets it back by writing a lively account of an attempted assassination staged by having his secretary fire on a Soviet Commissar of police...
...anyone else's. When Lenin was shot, Lockhart was held in prison for a month as a spy, but upon the recovery of Lenin no evidence could be found against the emissary. Wishing that he had resigned his post rather than having helped in the intervention, he left Russia forlorn: "My physical body was going forward, but my thoughts were back in Moscow and in the country which I was leaving--probably for ever...
...story-about a U. S. naval officer (Gary Grant) who light-heartedly marries a geisha girl, deserts her when she is with child, returns with his U. S. wife to pay a call when the geisha girl has been hungrily awaiting his return for three years-seems a little forlorn with no one to sing Puccini's music. For cinemaddicts who enjoy librettos without song it should provide acceptable entertainment. Typical shot: Gary Grant heartily promising to return to Japan when the robins nest again...
...other difficulties besetting all nations at present a readjustment is but common justice. Unless sentimental and "moral" considerations are set aside and economic realism substituted for them in America's attitude she will be the loser. The American people cannot seem to realize this. The only hope perhaps a forlorn one is that their representatives are wiser...