Word: hapless
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Soon his soirees were drawing the entire freshman class, despite the righteous indignation of puritanical proctors. Worcester also founded the employees clinic in '32 and had appointed a part-time psychiatrist eight years earlier. He built up an eye clinic and got a doctor to take care of hapless med school men, also...
...satirist, bile is almost as necessary as ink. Some, like Dean Swift, swim in it; others, like John Marquand, barely wet their prose in it; a few end by drowning in it. Japan's Ryunosuke Akutagawa was one of the hapless few; in 1927, sunk in pessimism and possibly near madness, he took an overdose of veronal and died. He was only 35, but the more than 100 short stories he wrote have since established him as Japan's most corrosive modern satirist...
DRAWINGS FROM Punch, a collection of 150 cartoons by 50 of the artists who give Britain's venerable funny magazine its polite kick. Punch's jesters like the same simple lines, merrily exaggerated expressions, and hapless characters as their U.S. counterparts: bumbling doctors, madcap crooks, chesty admirals and busty dowagers...
...Leverett football team moved to the top of the House league with an impressive 14 to 0 victory over Lowell yesterday, while Dunster topped hapless Winthrop...
...hapless Giants and luckless Indians recently faced the realization that they are good second-place teams, while the top-running Dodgers and Yankees respectively headed toward their first and fourth straight pennant races. For the Bums, the excitement is all over until the World Series starts next Wednesday; the Yankees still can blow the pennant by losing their last four games, but chances are they'll gain a berth opposite Brooklyn sometime before this weekend...