Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Francis Cardinal Bourne in 1935, embarrassed the Church by his statements during the Italo-Ethiopian war. Replying energetically to the anti-Italian attacks of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Westminster announced that the Pope was powerless to intervene in the war because he was "a helpless old man." For this, Archbishop Hinsley, long-jawed Yorkshireman, was passed over when on two occasions the Pope raised other prelates to the purple...
...nose, the bite of a sailor who shared the captain's improvised raft and went mad from drinking salt water. The others, six of whom were saved by the C. D. Mallory tanker Swiftsure, told a gruesome tale. The sea had suddenly become alive with sharks. Helpless comrades could only look on as the man-eaters tore the bodies of two seamen to bits, pulled a third through his life belt...
...Marx. In Paris, at 58, he died-crying "Paper! Pencil!" The wonder was that he had lived so long. A syphilitic infection, contracted in his university days and never diagnosed, had progressively lamed his left leg, crippled his left arm, and in his last years reduced him to almost helpless invalidism...
...Black Watch's presence, the disarmed Christian police demanded that the Moslem villagers restore their arms, roughly ordered Moslem women to aid them in searching cellars. Having found no weapons, the Christians set charges of dynamite under the houses of three prominent Arab residents who remained helpless while their homes and goods were blown to smithereens. Finally the Christians, after sending their patrol to mark other Arab homes, announced: "We are prepared to spare one house for each rifle returned...
...hands of the singing teacher's Japanese houseboy, the free-for-all that follows Mr. Smith's canine persistence in playing go-find with two shriekingly circumstantial derby hats in Lucy's apartment. From this climax, when all Lucy's indiscretions are aired for the helpless mischances they really are, the rest is gay downgrade. Lucy commits delirious gaucheries in a Park Avenue drawing room to free Jerry from an entangling alliance, contrives a sprightly midnight reconciliation that must have given the Hays office a bad ten minutes...