Word: friendless
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...speak our language, they do not know our laws, they are the raw material with which we have to build up the state . . . There is no denying the service which Tammany has rendered to the Republic. There is no such organization for taking hold of the untrained, friendless man and converting him into a citizen. Who else would do it if we did not? Think of the hundreds of thousands of foreigners dumped into our city. They are too old to go to school. There is not a mugwump in the city who would shake hands with him. They...
...have yearly been advanced against this plan do not counter the advantages it would have. Such assignments would neither throw freshmen into an uncongenial atmosphere nor destroy a House's uniqueness. Applicants, still choosing their own roommates, could not be thrust into a situation where they would be absolutely friendless. Individual spirit in a House is not created by students alone. Masters and tutors would still vary widely, each staff trying to express its own views and attitudes in the House program, each approaching the students from a different point of view...
...failed us. Neither our education nor our experience nor our principles had prepared us for this encounter. Ours is, indeed, a rich and wonderful country-glamorous beyond belief. A bum can no longer suffer mere misfortune; he must be "rolled by a beautiful call girl." And he is not friendless. Far from it; he has only to appear in Wall Street to have his credit and identity restored. I returned to my office filled with awe. What dreams we Americans can dream ! Who has bums like our bums? MAX J. K. CLARK New York City...
...bedside table at a rundown Cleveland rooming house, a friendless old woman scrawled a note just before she died: "The only thing I own is my dog. Please take it to the Press. Ask them to find a home for it. I know the home they find will be a good one." Such confidence in the Cleveland Press (circ. 310,858) is neither misplaced nor unusual. Seven out of every ten people in the Cleveland area, boasts the Press, read the paper. Politicians curry its favor, mothers raise children from booklets on child care supplied by the Press, teen-agers...
...attorney. Warden Lawes wrote: "In the twelve years of my wardenship, I have escorted 150 men and one woman to the death chamber and the electric chair. . . They came from all kinds of homes and environments. In one respect, they were all alike. All were poor, and most were friendless. To what end or purpose were these victims sent to their premature deaths?" Surveys of executions in the South show that five Negroes offset every white condemned to death...