Word: forlornly
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...know where to get him. Fortunately, Papa Jonas, who lived downstairs, was a puppet master and the difficulty was solved by the marriage of Annabelle Lee to Mr. Aristotle, the veteran clown-philosopher of Papa Jonas' puppet troupe. Alas, the marriage turned out unsuccessfully! Poor Mr. Aristotle, forlorn boaster that he was, discovered how much more difficult it is actually to kiss in secret than to tell about a thousand imaginary kisses in public. He fled back to his puppet companions for comfort and found none. In his absence even his poor reputation for rowdiness had faded. He returned...
...most significant aspect of the Free State refusal to join in the proffered republican armistice is that the Free Staters consider the offer as the last and forlorn hope of the irregulars...
Cause me to, forlorn...
...news of a basketball game cancelled because the entire visiting team, including the coaches and two substitutes are "down with the grippe" makes an interesting item in the columns of the paper but it also serves as a timely warning. In the forlorn interval between snow and rain when the weather cannot make up its mind what to do and finishes off a morning of October sunshine with an afternoon of December show ending in a February thaw, the daily Infirmary list approaches a ward notice of registered voters. According to statistics the weeks ahead are the lowest...
...students have a flair for hats, let him view the array now spread out in the Crimson office as mementos of a football victory over Yale. When the excitement had died away after the game, the Crimson, alert to the interest of its readers, organized a hat exchange. Many forlorn hats which had become separated from their fathers were thus restored to their homes. Yet now two weeks after the game the orphan hats number nearly thirty. And those who are constantly in and out of Harvard square have no difficulty in recognizing them as Harvard hats...