Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floor when the weather was warm and allowed to roll around. She couldn't talk?the only time I ever heard her utter a vocal sound was once when she fell on a hot furnace grating. Then she uttered a sort of animal sound. She was absolutely helpless...
...Blazer's other (normal) daughter she was described as follows: "She was utterly helpless. Her body was terribly twisted. She couldn't walk, couldn't feed herself and was not able even to brush a fly from her face. The noises she made were animal-like and frightened strangers. The sight of her eating was so revolting that I couldn't stand it to watch...
...Minister to have Sir Herbert knighted, in recognition of his skill as a great manipulative surgeon, are guilty of 'infamous professional conduct' in which they were abetted by the King. . . . But it does not act on its views because the King and his advisors are not so helpless as Axham...
...mother in the case is edging into middle age reluctantly. She has devices to stay beautiful; she has no brains; she has a lover. Her son's fiancee and the lover are attracted honestly; want to marry. The son, a neurotic, effeminate youth, bursts into helpless hysteria. It is this last part that Mr. Coward plays; nervously, overpoweringly. Several other characters are English players from the London company. Particularly is the mother's part effective as played by Lillian Braithwaite. And, lest this superlative and swift synopsis should suggest tragedy, be it said that The Vortex is a comedy...
...arrival at Etah was strictly on schedule, desipte two nerve-racking days when the Bowdoin and Peary lay helpless in the ominous, muttering ice-floes of Melville Bay. While the ships were jammed, their crews ventured overside for snow-fights on the floes; for long walks, two miles over the groaning pan ice to the nearest open water. Animal life abounded on the frozen bay-flocks of little auks, eider duck, sportive seals and an occasional roving polar bear. One 800-lb. female bear swung up alongside the Bowdoin, was received with a bullet by MacMillan. Doctors of the party...