Word: haggardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just eight months ago King Edward VIII trudged through the coal dust of South Wales "Distressed Areas" on what the British press called his "errand of mercy" (TIME, Nov. 30). After looking at the treeless, blackened hillsides, the abandoned coal mines, the pitiful brick hovels, the haggard faces of the inhabitants, more than 45,000 of whom were unemployed and only 2,000 employed at the time, His Majesty exclaimed publicly: "Something must be done for Wales...
...None of the men . . . were able to sit up," she said. "There was one man who looked gaunt and haggard, who had a man lying on top of him. I got his head on my lap. I noticed his face was getting cold and black. He motioned toward his pocket, and I reached and got a cigaret for him. But it was covered with blood. He said, 'Never mind, you're a good kid, carry on.' He started to say 'Mother' but then he stiffened up. ... I said to the officer at the door...
King Solomon's Mines (Gaumont-British) is good-old-fashioned adventure adapted from H. Rider Haggard's 50-year-old melodrama. In quest of legendary diamonds encased in Africa's jagged Drakensberg Mountains go doughty Allan Quartermain (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), Kathy O'Brien (Anna Lee), Captain Good (Roland Young), Sir Henry Curtis (John Loder) and Umbopa (Paul Robeson), a burly, black Zulu. On the desert trek the reckless fL'e almost perish from thirst. In the mountains they are tolerated by Kukuana savages only because the superstitious blacks believe bemonocled Captain Good...
...softening the waves and setting it closer to the back of her head." Finally makeup experts advised the Crown Princess "how to make the best of her naturally fine features," notably making up her lips to appear slightly fuller. Cried admiring Miss Bristol, "Princess Juliana has never looked haggard or flabby, although she has lost more than 30 pounds...
Breakfasts & Vigor. New Haven's Professor Howard Haggard claims that people have a much higher muscular efficiency after eating breakfast than in the fasting state. Last week Atlanta's John Haldi & associates said that eating breakfast has no effect on vigor...