Word: haggardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From her seat in the small stuffy courtroom of Honolulu's Judiciary Building, a once handsome, now haggard New York & Washington society, matron eyed these twelve U. S. citizens as last week they took permanent seats in the jury box. They were the twelve men good & true who would try her, Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue, for second-degree murder. On the same charge they would also try her son-in-law, Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. Navy, who sat beside her staring at the floor and biting his lips. Likewise they would try Seamen Edward J. Lord...
Scot MacDonald, who had used these very words to exhort the Conference to action, had nothing to say to the Press, looked haggard...
...Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ''Springville," is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed lugged into his office. Toiling and arguing with his Cabinet Ministers, Ireland's "Messiah of Freedom'' faced with haggard mien an invisible and potent foe: the collective opposition of very polite British statesmen throughout the Empire. London hurled at Dublin last week a terrifying silence, a lack of further protest against the two major platform promises on which President de Valera was elected: abolition of the Free State Deputies...
...given advertisement. It has been found, however, this the same appeal works here and in Europe. Testimonial advertisements for cold creams are more effective when the writer is pretty and has a fairly widely recognized name than when the name is world famous and the face old or haggard...
Tough Mr-Mollison. A Gipsy-Moth biplane plunked sloppily down upon the gravel beach at Pevensey Bay, England, tipped up on end, flopped back on its haunches and rested. Out of the cockpit crawled a haggard Scotsman, one James A. Mollison, 25, to respond fully to the questions of an excited little crowd. Eight days and 21 hrs. prior he had left Australia, 10,000 mi. away. Every day he had forced his small plane along to the limit of his own endurance, sleeping an average of two hours each night. Night before he had taken off from Rome into...