Word: hapless
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Thereafter she devotes herself strictly to her art, winning acclaim all over the world, from royalty, from the critics, from the people. Years later, with the world at her feet, she sees Carl again, and triumphs sweetly. For the hapless Carl, "already too stout," finds her, a languidly smiling, altogether superior creature, "sitting in the drawing-room of my handsome suite in Vienna's best hotel, reading a new and much discussed novel...
Once during the revelry a married Parliamentarian, no doubt attracted by the tinkling of glass, strode into the room. Instantly bedlam was let loose. " Bah! Blahhh ! Turn him out! Get out! " arose from the assembled celibates. The " hapless " benedict fled...
Even before Mr. Morley burst upon a startled world, however, the rumour had somehow got around that a college graduate could be expected to supply information on all subjects. And the hapless graduate has been trying to live up to expectations ever since. Perhaps he may have seemed a trifie too persistent in his efforts, but a consideration of the obstacles to be overcome (cf. Thomas Edison and others) should persuade us to be lenient in our judgements. The whole thing is so obviously unfair; there should be a set of rules established. Running graduates through the gauntlet is becoming...
...type not wit but humor. In fact the play depends little on its lines; it is from character, incident, and pure stage effect that the author, Frederick Isham, has gleaned his laughs. The play moves amiably from situation to situation, with little suspense except in the person of the hapless Spoofy, whose mystery is satisfactorily solved at the last moment, and untangles the knot for them...
Such is the monstrous fate which overhangs the hapless undergraduate. What a relief, therefore, to learn that the fuss is all due to a new efficiency system whereby the "goody" must give a reason if a room is not "made up"--and the easiest excuse is, of course, that the occupant rose too late. This is to protect the "goody" from being discharged for laziness. So the persecuted student may breathe freely once more and seek his downy coach without fear that his "morning after" snores will shake Olympus. The little white card which alone bears the testimony...