Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school authorities were helpless. President Ralph Snyder of the Board of Safety, representing Mayor Floyd E. Williams, arbitrated the situation and the strikers won all their demands. Magnanimous, Winfield Eschelman and friends permitted three Negro seniors to finish out the year at Emerson because they had been there all along, but the rest were transferred temporarily to an all-Negro junior high school elsewhere in town. The strikers returned to classes...
Prison wardens were helpless. Outside the gates 200 workers sang the "Internationale." Soon a call to the naval authorities brought a detachment of naval gendarmes on the run. Soon the mutineers were rounded up, placed in trucks, driven to greater security in the prison annex at nearby Malbousquet; police dispersed the chanting workers...
Tartuffe. Probably no actor alive can make one physiognomy do for two faces better than Emil Jannings, so that it is fitting he should act the hypocrite of Moliere's story. Unfortunately, his ability to make himself look repulsive while duping the helpless Orgon, is hardly enough to galvanize the play...
Meanwhile Burgomaster Seitz, seeing the police helpless, was able to marshal 2,000 reservist soldiers of the so-called Republican Guard. Resolute, these impromptu troops
Recently, Mr. Lyle, thus afflicted, was out riding with one William Weaver, who was demonstrating to him an automobile. Suddenly Mr. Weaver was prodded with a pistol by Mr. Lyle, who ordered him out of the car, and then drove swiftly away with it, leaving Demonstrator Weaver irate, helpless...