Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gets the window open. His coat is wrapped around the servant's head. She is helpless and he nearly so. He lowers her out and the crowd catches the body. He crawls out, starts to climb down, slips, tumbles. They catch him too, but his shirt is steaming. His arms and neck are fearfully scorched. He faints...
Complacently treading his Brooklyn "beat," Patrolman Salvatore Di Lorenzo, one year "on the force," heard the broken screams of a woman frightened & helpless. He ran-into the apartment of Mrs. Adelaide Lambert. Her two-year-old daughter, she cried at him, was choking to death from diphtheria...
...play of two people who have been so busy enjoying and acquiring things of the world that something of the spirit has died within them. They fall in love, are both unequal to its challenge. The girl dies, poisoned by her own incapacity; the man stands groping, helpless...
...avers his contributions added 7,000 readers); other weeklies and monthlies. In August the famed columnist struck when the World refused to print columns on Sacco-Vanzetti. Bright exponent of "personal journalism," he demanded the right to write what he please. By contract obligations to the World he was helpless to write for newspapers...
...need for a trial, which could have had but one result, was a thing nobody thought of. . . . The Public was invited to do with the Prisoners as they pleased. In consequence many a helpless prisoner was slashed with penknives and spat upon as the group tramped their sorrowful way to execution. . . . Five rifles spat their leaden charge. Five bodies ln turn wilted to rise no more. . . ." Thus the South China Morning Post of Hongkong described, last week, the typically Chinese epilogue to an ugly two-day uprising at Canton, fomented by Soviet Russian Communists. The sole eye-witness account...