Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Odingsell River, Ga., a wild duck plunged his head into the mud, had his bill caught by an oyster which held him fast. Hunters approached, saw the hapless duck, shot and bagged him, with the oyster still clamped upon his bill...
White Flame. The hapless heroine of this play pines for years while the man whom she loves has a ghastly time with two marriages. He is a purblind fellow, played by Kenneth Harlan (onetime cinemactor), who does not appreciate her allure until she saves him from death at the hands of a dope fiend. Just why he should love her then is problematical. The little child of his first wife enters to assist the final curtain...
...years ago as "Chang of Shantung" he wrung more than ten million dollars from its hapless people. When driven out by the Chinese Nationalists (TIME, Sept. 24), he absconded with women and loot to Dairen, bought the hugest house, made it huger, and tried to settle down with 30 pleasingly proportioned young females of assorted races. It was no use-too much of a good thing-and grizzled Marshal Chang sailed off conquistadoring...
...worked with him declared that Renaud was violently anti-Al Smith, while Swope's lusty voice has long spouted praises of that hapless warrior. Renaud, it was said, had never been able to forget, let alone forgive, the Germans. Swope on the other hand is critical of jingo patriotism. And in religious matters, Renaud was described as uncompromisingly Protestant. The Swopian World's news columns were always wide open to the Catholics...
...those left-on-the-doorstep scenarios that bring in everything but the fall of Babylon to prove that New York City is a great big mouse trap for boys and girls away from home. It has some cleve post-Ufa photography and a lot of heavy breathing around the hapless Miss Carroll to drum up interest but it's no use, no one's killed, and that blights the sole hope of the spectators...