Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finland (TIME, Oct. 23). The President of the U. S. in a "personal message"-in the diplomatic scale, one short of formal representation-had simply reminded Russia of 1) U. S. friendship for little Finland; 2) the fact that Franklin Roosevelt got the U. S. to recognize the friendless Soviets in 1933. The President of the U. S. S. R. diplomatically told the President of the U. S. to mind his own business...
...German engineers) in science, technology, education and living standards. Today scornful J. B. and overfattened France grow solicitous of the Bear, who no longer needs them. A year ago these "civilized" democracies (?) discussed using a pound of Bear flesh for appeasement meat. Hitler smacked his lips. The Ukraine! Sick, friendless and with Nippon gnawing his tail, the Bear bid fair to be devoured, and England would have agreed to the death and enslavement of the Russian people in exchange for some juicy trade to enrich England's already-too-rich ruling class...
Clive rose from a penniless, friendless and unfriendly clerk of the East India Company to a military hero. Arcot and Plassey were his smashing victories. At Arcot, Clive's little army of 500 defeated an opposing army of 10,000. At Plassey, Clive's 3,200 men routed 50,000. William Pitt described him in Parliament as "the heaven-born general...
...sleek, bandboxical "Dapper Don" Collins began looting telephone boxes, soon graduated to blackmail, stock swindles, fraud, rumrunning. By the garish '20s he had a yacht, rolls of thousand-dollar bills, a long police record, a beauteous consort (Helen Patterson Heywood, who divorced her husband for him). Last week, friendless, feeble, finished, 59-year-old Dapper Don went to Sing Sing to serve 15 to 30 years. His crime: a piddling swindle. Said he: "I've been around, but today I'm just an old reprobate...
When he died of typhus in 1791, he was impoverished, all but friendless. He was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave, since lost...