Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goodies have not been helpless, however. About a week ago the particular goodie who was forced to put up with the monkeyshines rebelled. She handed the owner's broom and said. "There, you can clean up yourselves so help me! I'm not going in that room...
...glory of the cave man. The instinct of vanity in man is too ancient to be uprooted in one generation. Goadod by Colgate's hammering attacks on the hairy face, blinded by the glitter of three-minute safety razors, and drugged by the perfumery of multiplying shaving soap, the helpless male shaves...
...Others, following his shaking finger, perceived the joke, began to titter, to cackle. Soon a hysteria of amusement possessed the group; they laid hands upon one another, crowing; they pressed their sides, their eyes watered freely, they stamped upon the ground; some, more abandoned, slipped limply down and rolled, helpless, among the feet of those left standing. Oshkosh! They had seen the name of Oshkosh. A golfer from Oshkosh, Miss Bernice Wall, was going to play in the tournament...
Telephone girls shaking and cackling, helpless with mirth...
...Manhattan subway train, last week, some telephone girls sat together and giggled. They would bow their heads together over a newspaper, whisper for a moment, then fling themselves back, shaking and cackling, helpless with mirth. A man seated opposite eyed this performance. His face was at once sharp and bland; he had a wing collar, a bow tie, a blond mustache. Perhaps he knew that the girls were becoming hysterical because they had discovered in him a resemblance to the man whose picture appeared on the front page of their newspaper, whose name appeared on the front page of other...