Word: haggards
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...using Technicolor was to exploit Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings, it should not have been used. The paintings flash across the screen for at least five minutes, boring the non-cultured and leaving the art appreciators gasping. Further, I do not think the use of greens and mauves in haggard faces conveys either realism or artistry...
That was six weeks ago. Last week, after the slow machinery of the law had ground away at his case, he was brought to court, haggard and unshaven, to hear the verdict of the grand jury. But this time the dreary old tale had a fresh and unexpected ending...
...hospital as usual to see his wife. She lay in bed, staring straight ahead. "I am sorry," said the doctor to Adrien. "She does not know you any more." Adrien stared and stared, then he shuffled away, his legs moving uncertainly, his hands shaking, his face drawn and haggard. The department store manager regretfully allowed him to quit, got a new man to play Santa Claus. Children clambered obediently to his lap, and business went on as usual. But, from time to time, a palsied old man with a white beard could be seen peering anxiously in the store window...
...later years were a nightmare. David and Ellen lived in the mistaken belief that they were responsible for Ora's misery. Old and haggard, Ora degenerated into a hysterical creature whose violent "attacks" could be eased only when David let her nestle against his shoulder. In the end, Ora survived them both; as David, at 76, prepared to die. she whispered her love and her loyalty: ''Till death do us part...
...resolve the dilemma. Harry Truman sent a message praising Averell Harriman's "talents as a statesman, as an administrator, and as a great liberal deeply devoted to the fundamental purposes of the Democratic Party and to the welfare of the American people." Harriman, the pleasantly haggard millionaire who has been a New-Fair Dealer since he became an NRA administrator in 1934, stepped forward to do his best. He spoke in loud, firm tones: "Foreign and domestic policies are indivisible ... If the voices of hesitation prevail, we would destroy what we have built and we would...