Word: haplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thousands of quarts of pitiful tears, one may safely calculate, have been loosed by readers who have followed the misfortunes of Tolstoi's hapless Anna Karenina, although they fill nearly a thousand goodly pages. Further lacrimal inundations are imminent, for the bearded Russian novelist's masterpiece has at last achieved its grand-operatic setting. The composer of the new opera is one Igino Robbiani, of whom little or nothing is known in the U. S. Is the musical taste of the Queen of Italy to be trusted? If so, Robbiani deserves to be known, for after the premi...
BARDELYS THE MAGNIFICENT?Rafael Sabatini ? Houghton ($2.00). More sword-clashings by "the modern Dumas," who here tosses off another breathless tale of hapless heroine rescued by peerless knight amid rebellion, intrigue, mad dashings hither and yon, and all else calculated to lift one bodily out of one's chair...
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...