Word: hapless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Varnay-the chance to stride the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in a big part. Soprano Lotte Lehmann fell ill, Soprano Varnay donned the blond wig and nightie of Sieglinde in Wagner's Die Walküre. Though she had never appeared on any stage, she sang that hapless housewife's role with such easy assurance that critics all but ho-yo-to-hoed...
...Swedish aquavit. They turn the radio on to the Minnesota game and raise the volume to the limit. Then the whole bunch of them sit around yelling "ski-yu-mah" and singing "Minnesota, Hats Off to Thee" until the Golden Horde has trounced another poor opponent. Woe to the hapless Nebraskan or Indianan who stumbles on their festivities and refuses to raise his voice in praise of the Gophers...
With three straight wins over Winthrop, Dunster, and Leverett, the Bell Boys seem sure to add a fourth victory over the hapless Elephants who how flounder in the league coller. It will be Johnny Felmeth's passing and running that will once again give the opposition a busy afternoon...
Coach Chief Boston's hapless Yardlings, who were on the very short end of a 26 to 0 score against Exeter last week, will go "all out" this afternoon to pin an undefeated Andover football team in a game scheduled for 2:30 o'clock at Andover...
...next move is up to the House masters. They alone have the power to abolish the current system, which is irritatingly outdated now that the standard rate prevails. Some sort of investigation seems to be the only fair answer to the hapless students who maintain that a greater amount of liberty would lessen "that restricted feeling...