Word: haggard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end, sleepless and haggard, President Lebrun sent once more for Camille Chautemps, asked him to try to form a Cabinet. "We have been around in a circle," declared the Premier-Designate with an exhausted attempt at humor, "and we are back where we started...
...haggard, burning-eyed clergyman last week went about his duties in St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Memphis, Tenn. and in his home in the shadow of the white stone Gothic fane. People in his Bible class, at wedding and funeral services he conducted, at Holy Communion in the Cathedral, eyed Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe with silent, respectful curiosity. They had read in Memphis newspapers that this dean of the Cathedral, once a florid and jovial churchman, had for a year taken no nourishment but orange juice. For a fortnight, to prove that "the soul is above...
...three-day tour of Yorkshire, not making the constitutional mistake Edward VIII made when he toured Welsh slums as King, provocatively exclaimed: "Something must be done for Wales!' (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.). Inspecting last week a municipal housing development at Shiregreen, Their Majesties conversed democratically with a haggard housewife who told of tribulations since her husband lost his job five years ago. Queen Elizabeth cried: "It's wonderful how you manage on so little...
...more. Because a saloonkeeper with a record machine does not require the services of even a beery "professor" at a piano, Chicago Musicians' Boss James C. ("Mussolini") Petrillo, in order to manufacture work for musicians, forbade his unionists to make any more recordings (TIME, Jan. 4). And haggard President Joseph N. Weber of the American Federation of Musicians has threatened a national musicians' strike if record and radio people do not do something about unemployed A. F. of M. musicians (TIME, Aug. 9). Last week the strike was still a threat, with...
...expressed all that he had distilled out of his experience. Expelled with six other Europeans by the Bolsheviks from "the very middle of Asia," later held in custody in Aqsu. Serafimov had spent a winter in a particularly colorful environment of Asiatic depravity, had fallen in love with a haggard Russian prostitute and, having finally touched the lowest depth of despair and loneliness, had attained a lasting state of grace by strangling a companion fugitive...