Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believing that it is detrimental to the reputation of the University to suffer helpless humiliation over and over again as under present conditions...
...satisfactory compensation. If these broad outlines leave you cold, you may still be affected by the sight of John Carradine, that lean, relentless fiend from "The Prisoner of Shark's Island", dragging along the futilely resisting Ramona as he goes to pump three bullcts into the helpless Alessandro, for having taken his (the American's) horse in a desperate effort to save the life of his baby...
...Meets Girl" is a recklessly silly satire hurled against that great helpless brute, the cinema. The movies for several years now have been offering their humble deference to the older sister, in the form of receiving players and plots, and the haughty stage has been responding with scornful excoriations. The stage's chief tenet is that anyone really a part of the celluloid industry must perforce be moronic...
...KING EDWARD'S COURT" This sold at 15? each some 100,000 copies of the new New York Woman in which a spade was called a shovel thus: "While the outcome, no doubt, will be a victory for the Throne, the King, quite evidently, is the most helpless of creatures, a man over 40 who has fallen desperately in love." The New York World-Telegram, leading organ of the nation-wide Scripps-Howard chain, followed this with front-page pictures six inches high of Queen Mary and Mrs. Simpson side by side-the Scripps-Howard story being that...
This left the Great Powers rebuffed and helpless, unless they were willing to intervene. Only voice of note to speak up on this risky point was that of the Primate of All England, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury. "Mediation? Who can undertake the task?" he asked. "It would be a great thing if the leading European powers would attempt it, but this might lead only to dissension among themselves. . . . 'Disquieting signs that the world seems to be going mad have come from this horrible civil war in Spain...