Word: haggardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London the entire course of negotiation was toward Peace without Punishment last week, and in their efforts to contrive this the harassed statesmen daily got to bed about 3 a. m. Faces grew haggard and tempers short, but there was always French champagne at London's diplomatic meals and the pleasure of being accorded a private audience with His Majesty the King-a pleasure generously bestowed all round by Edward VIII last week, notably upon Hitler's von Ribbentrop...
...unable to stand the strain much longer!" wailed the haggard plutocrat. "I have had three cables from the United States one of which suggested a lettuce diet. I have had more than 1,000 letters from the United States, England, Ireland and Scotland. Many noble women have written me saying that they are only sympathetic and interested in getting me to sleep and care nothing...
Unshaven and haggard was Premier Okada when he at last turned himself over to his astounded valet and was shaved, decked out as an Admiral with all his medals, and drove to the Palace to prostrate himself before the Emperor and humbly voice "my sincere regrets." It was not that the Premier regretted his sensational escape but that in Japan, when things get as far out of hand as they had last week, it is supposed that the Son of Heaven has been inconvenienced or disturbed and officials of the Empire are supposed to regret this. They may regret...
Have a midnight hamburger and a Coca-Cola to improve your marks. Last week Howard Haggard of Yale's Department of Applied Psychology praised the midnight snack as increasing the student's speed and efficiency. Dr. Haggard believes that his latest experiments will revolutionize America's eating habits...
Many of "Antony" Eden's friends, particularly female, urged him to make this stand. He seemed haggard as he entered the House of Commons and his chief, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who had gone without his dinner in the crisis, also seemed haggard. But when Captain Eden finally spoke, it was for His Majesty's Government and to advocate The Deal- denounced the day before by Laborite Dr. Hugh Dalton, onetime Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, as "condoning a felony and worse than a felony-wholesale murder and treaty breaking...