Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alone, forsaken, denied even the publicity of a common murderer, these helpless beings must stink along through the sewers of life under the ban of public disgust. If only curiosity, interest, some attention could be drawn to them. Perhaps through the book--The gavel of the magistrate raps fiercely on the desk. Even in the eyes of the law she is pushed aside. A smile of satisfaction spreads over the phlegmatic features of smug, heartless mankind. Cruel humanity plods on, its head high, leaving its poor sisters by the wayside, alone, out of the limelight. Was ever an abnormality dismissed...
...apply to advertisements in newspapers, magazines, brochures or handbills. And through such bypasses slick manufacturers have made their effect on people inclined to take advertising claims at face value. Such advertised claims are rarely repeated on the labels or circulars with the packages of drugs. Federal prosecutors are usually helpless...
...believe that it is an insult, a coldblooded insult. . . . It is a foolish attempt to get the American workingman to believe that the Democratic Party under my leadership is going to prostrate him, drive his children out of his house and leave him helpless and homeless. What a stupid performance-of all the men in the world to urge that against a man who came up from the ranks of labor himself, and if elected President I am going to drive them all out of their home...
...Hearst was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives. "Evidence multiplied that he had touched the hearts and gained the confidence of a great multitude, and that he was beginning to be honestly taken as an unterrified champion of the poor and helpless," says Writer Winkler. Yet Hearst was never again elected to any other important public office, though he tried for senator and governor and, at one time, boomed himself for the presidency. The man who finally spiked the political guns of Hearst was Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York...
Soon General Pao reported to the indignant but helpless Diplomatic Corps at Peking that Feng's troops had refused Pao's men passage through their lines, thus having repudiated the safe conduct of "Model Governor...