Word: hapless
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Thoroughly aroused, M. Poincaré then flayed those awaiting trial as "a hapless mixture of genuine separatists, theoretical autonomists, mere idealists, and dupes [of Germany...
...Many a hapless pilot has crashed, died in flames ; many a plane burst afire in midair. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, famed inventor, of Brooklyn, N. Y., believes the fire menace mastered. His company has developed a Diesel airplane engine. Fuel oil for Diesel engines is non-inflammable...
...into it" and the straggling columns of fours were straightened out, arms swung martially, heads were held proudly up and smiles of anticipation lit the men's faces. Then the whole spectacle was reduced to pathos, for the oncoming horsemen and women were scarlet-coated hunters pursuing a hapless...
...place of a prize ring, an ice surface for hockey, a bicycle track and other floor devices with which Madison Square Garden is normally equipped of evenings, the customers saw dirt. Soft dirt where hapless riders might tumble unhurt. In the middle of the dirt they saw suave gentlemen in cutaways (afternoons) and evening clothes; judges of horses. Also "Dutch" White, professional ringmaster of many a horseshow, resplendent in a scarlet & gold suit...
...Manhattan, hapless Jeremiah Bletch dropped the $5 gold piece, office Christmas gift, that he was telephoning Mrs. Bletch about, into the pay station box. Mrs. Bletch grieved...