Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church of Rome to condemn . . . Italy," snorted President Baron Dickinson of the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship through the Churches last week in London. Stoutly rebutting for the Supreme Pontiff, Most Rev. Arthur Kinsley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, explained that the Holy Father is "a helpless old man. ... As Head of the Church he has no grounds to interfere in purely political matters unless invited...
...summer vacation they find a garish stucco house newly-erected on the lot next to theirs and the unfolding of Anthonys' late for its occupants begins with a noisy house-warming when Anthony summons the police to keep them quiet. The splondid psychological outlining of Anthony's defiant but helpless rage is contained in a piece of writing that makes the whole book worth buying. He grows more and more unbalanced in his broodings, while his wife in her "thin vagnoly quavoring voice" keeps complaining...
...parlous times like these those who seek to advance their fortunes in the world must be masters of the manly art of self-expression, especially on paper. A literary stammerer is as helpless in Harvard College as is the tongue-tied man in the advertisements when called upon for a speech, and the CRIMSON editorial competition will teach writing better than either English A or any correspondence school you ever...
...Sentimental, touchy Fitzsimmons was hurt, brooded over the slight, refused to shake hands when they met in the ring. He told Robert Davis he would win in the seventh, then changed it to the 14th. In the 14th his blow to the solar plexus left Corbett retching and helpless and Fitzsimmons champion of the world. After Corbett had been counted out Fitzsimmons offered again to shake hands with him. This time Corbett accepted...
...billowing dunes of the Nufud, whose red sands, "saturated with sunshine," looked as if they had been covered with crimson silk. They hunted panther and ostrich, saw gazelles, outrode a prolonged sandstorm that nearly killed them all. Carl Raswan studied desert customs, developed an affection for the noble, helpless, panicky, good-natured camel, learned to eat locust, which he liked roasted but not boiled...