Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traveled extensively, lived several years in the Orient. Wherever he went, he was welcome only once: former hosts cut him on the street after they had appeared in his pages. An old man before his time, friendless, lonely, he died in the arms of the only person he had ever cared for, his old mistress Lizzie...
...cases of men who have failed at Harvard because they did not orient themselves in its rather complex existence, and then to hope that this tea dance will eradicate that evil. But it should do something to create a more aimiable and friendly atmosphere for the occasional isolated and friendless freshman...
...John Callahan, "Bishop of the Bowery," chaplain at Manhattan's Tombs Prison: "There were 44 saloons in the Bowery ten years ago. There isn't one today. Hundreds of men there were homeless and friendless. Today they' ve got homes, wives, children, bank accounts, automobiles, radios and life insurance. I hope and pray to God Almighty that the 18th Amendment will be kept in the Constitution...
Commons after Lords. The House of Lords decisively rejected E. F. T. last fall. Last week it came up friendless in the Commons. Out of the House before the debate began slipped solid Stanley Bald win, leader of the Conservative Party, to which Viscount Rothermere has now strangely switched his support after furiously championing the Liberals in the last election with little or no success...
...turns out to have been nearly all wrong. The real facts, we have it on excellent authority, are these: About the beginning of the present century a student named Rinehart--John Brice Gordon Rinehart--was living on the top floor of Gray's Hall. He wasn't eccentric and friendless but, to all appearances, a rather normal underclassman. One night a fellow student called to him from the Yard, "O, R-i-i-ne-hart!" in a hoarse bass voice, and kept up the cry for many minutes. Other boys were calling other friends from the Yard...