Word: hapless
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...sanctions and cherishes Armfield's "synthetic drama" and the futurist antics of Marinetti. The reader of the newspapers learns with astonishment that the aeroplane has been successfully adopted by criminals for purpose of escape, and that Trotzky is producing a series of communistic plays which he is forcing the hapless Russians to attend...
...deplorable miscalculation which resulted in the eventless, wholesale roundup seems to have been caused by the excellence of the bootleggers' product. The army of thirty lumberjacks, who were apparently counted on to repulse the officers, was paralyzed by the liquor. Had there been less kick in the product, the hapless, defenseless bootleggers might have fulfilled their anticipation of stimulating the courage of their constituents rather than seeing all the available bravery drowned in the gutter...
...least six weeks after the time of their first bow to the world. True, the greater part of the cargoes of most of these vessels, like those of the shingle boats that children freight for journeys down a brook, may well be jettisoned; but doubtless with many a hapless cargo some things really worth saving go down. A few light, gay, shiny bits do float, and sail gaily down life's brook, sparkling in the sunlight even brighter than the ripples of the stream. There are people who have been known to chase a "continued story" through the numbers...
...hotel in Paris, in "L'Anglais Tel Qu'on lo Parle"--from the woes of the sighting Lucinde to the plight of the more energetic Miss Betty Hogson, daughter, but sorely hampered for lack of so much as one French word. An interpreter would serve him, but the hapless Hegson knows not one syllable of English. None the less he finally makes himself understood and his talk and translations are burlesque at its drollest...
Hand that robs hapless me of all my rest...